AN AUCTION OF ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MEDALS Live Online Auction Free Bidding Service www.dnw.co.uk Tuesday 12th May 2015 at 10:00 am AUCTION Monday 27th April to Friday 1st May Tuesday 5th to Friday 8th May 16 Bolton Street, Mayfair, London W1J 8BQ strictly by appointment only Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th May 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, Pierce Noonan or Brian Simpkin Front Cover: Lot 379 Back Cover: Lot 384 C ONTENTS Please note: Lots will be sold at a rate of approximately 120 per hour Single Campaign Medals .................................................................................................................1-298 Single Orders and Decorations....................................................................................................299-304 Long Service, Coronation and Jubilee Medals..............................................................................305-332 Life Saving Awards ......................................................................................................................333-335 Miniature Medals ........................................................................................................................336-345 World Orders and Decorations ...................................................................................................346-362 Miscellaneous .............................................................................................................................363-372 Books ..........................................................................................................................................373-378 Awards for the Defence of Fort Itala ............................................................................................379-383 Groups and Single Decorations for Gallantry ..............................................................................384-437 A Collection of Medals to the 9th and 12th Lancers ....................................................................438-488 A small Collection of Medals relating to the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade in Korea.........489-496 Campaign Groups and Pairs ........................................................................................................497-674 www.dnw.co.uk Important Notice with regard to this Online Auction Please note that this is an Online Auction. 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Telephone enquiries are welcome from 09:00 on the day after the auction. SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS x1 HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY MEDAL FOR SERINGAPATAM 1799, silver-gilt, 48mm., Soho Mint (From the East India Company to Valentine Conolly) naming inscribed on the edge in contemporary serif capitals, fitted with small ring for suspension, good very fine £1500-2000 Valentine Conolly was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Madras Medical Service on 16 June 1788 and Surgeon on 1 June 1796. He took part in the Fourth Mysore War and was present at the capture of Seringapatam in 1799. Conolly founded the Madras Lunatic Asylum in 1793 and set in train both a lucrative business and a procedure for the disposal of insane persons, which was regarded as most humane and judicious by the authorities. The accounts praising Conolly’s achievements are divided between mentions of personal profit on the one hand and public benevolence on the other. He retired in February 1803 and on his return to England he had accumulated great wealth and was acknowledged as one of those formerly less well-off Englishmen who returned from India as wealthy nabobs. He settled down in London, comfortably seeing his five sons through education in prestigious colleges and thus preparing them for promising careers - as military officers and members of the civil service in India. Before embarkation Conolly had sold the asylum buildings for three times the premises’ estimated value to another medical practitioner who expected the asylum to be a good enough income source to enable him to imitate his predecessor’s rise to fortune. Valentine Conolly died in London on 2 December 1819. 2 NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Acre 30 May 1799 (William Swanson.) with a good length of original ribbon, dark toned, minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine and scarce £3500-4000 A total of 40 clasps issued for ‘Acre 30 May 1799’, including 8 single clasp medals, and only 3 clasps to this ship which was not present at any other actions that qualified for a clasp to the N.G.S. medal. William Swanson is confirmed on the rolls as an Able Seaman aboard H.M.S. Alliance at the defence of Acre. The Alliance was formerly the Dutch frigate Alliantie, launched in Amsterdam in 1788. She was captured by H.M.S. Stag on 22 August 1795 in an action off the coast of Danish Norway and taken into the service of the Royal Navy as H.M.S. Alliance. She was commissioned as a storeship of 22 guns in December 1795. Alliance, Captain D. Wilmot, formed part of Captain Sir Thomas Troubridge’s squadron which arrived at Alexandria on 2 February 1799, and then proceeded to Acre, in Syria, where she arrived on 24 March, with orders from Troubridge to discharge her cargo and return immediately to Alexandria. However, upon her arrival, Alliance was commandeered by Sir Sydney Smith and actively employed in the defence of the town of Acre. In April 1799 Sir Sydney Smith anchored Tigre and Theseus, one on each side of the town, so their broadsides could assist the defence. Alliance and some gun-vessels he had captured were of shallower draft and so could come in closer. In spite of the fire from the ships, gun-vessels and the ramparts, the French made repeated assaults on the town which were repelled with great gallantry. However, on 8 April, Captain Wilmot, of the Alliance, received a mortal shot through the neck as he gallantly mounted a howitzer on the breach in the wall of the town of Acre. Additionally, Alliance had three men wounded on the day before. The French pushed on their approaches