C)LL$*/"+2$3"(0&"#$%%&’()$*"$+"(0&"%.(&"G9-8&"M&*24"@$6*.%%
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Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, G.C.B., G.C.H., one of Wellington’s six Divisional Commanders at the battle of
Waterloo
Lengths of ribbon: Army Gold Cross/Large Gold Medal, approx. 48mm. wide and 283mm. long, a little ragged, marked
and stained; Austria, Order of Maria Theresa, watered, approx. 38mm. wide and 187mm. long; Russia, Order of St.
George, approx. 35mm. wide and 180mm. long, fairly good condition (3) £100-140
With some copied research and certified provenance of the ribbon taken from the insignia of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton.
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Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, K.T., G.C.B., O.M., D.S.O., Royal Navy
Riband bar, pin-backed, bearing the ribbons: Order of the Bath; Distinguished Service Order, with two silver rosettes;
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902; 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19; Coronation 1911;
Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Belgium, Croix de Guerre, 1914-18; Greece, Medal of Military Merit, with bronze oak
leaf emblem, good condition £40-60
Andrew Browne Cunningham was born in 1883. He entered the Royal Navy in 1898 and saw service in the Boer War. For his service
in the Great War he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the D.S.O. and 2 bars. In the Second World War he was C-in-C
Mediterranean, 1939-42; Head of the British Admiralty Delegation in Washington, 1942; Naval C.-in-C Expeditionary Force North
Africa, 1942; C-in-C Mediterranean, 1943; and First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, 1943-46. Attained the rank of Admiral of the
Fleet in 1943. For his many excellent wartime services, he was created Viscount Hyndhope in 1946, a K.T. in 1945; G.C.B. in 1941;
and O.M. in 1946 (the Order of the Thistle and Order of Merit are never represented on a riband bar). In addition to his British honours
he was awarded a number of high allied honours. With copied research and certified provenance of the riband bar.
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Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Edwards, C.M.G., D.S.O., T.D., D.L., J.P., Welsh Horse, late 15th Hussars, 6th Baron
Kensington
Riband bar, pin-backed, bearing the ribbons: Order of St. Michael & St. George; Distinguished Service Order; Queen’s
South Africa 1899-1902; 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. oak leaf;
Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Territorial Decoration, good condition £30-40
Hugh Edwardes was born in 1873, the son of the 4th Baron Kensington. He succeeded his brother in the title in 1900. He entered the
Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 15th Hussars and served in South Africa, 1899-1901, as A.D.C. to Lieutenant-General Sir H. M. L.
Rundle, for which he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He became Lieutenant-Colonel of
the Welsh Horse in 1914 and saw service in the Dardanelles and in the Sinai and Jerusalem campaigns for which he was again
mentioned in despatches. In 1918 he was awarded the C.M.G.
With some copied research and certified provenance of the riband bar.
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Field Marshal Sir Francis Wogan Festing, G.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O., late East Lancashire Regiment
Riband bar, on buckram, in two strips, bearing the ribbons: Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, military; Order of the
Bath; Distinguished Service Order; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak
leaf; Coronation 1953; U.S.A. Legion of Merit, with ‘Commander’ emblem; China; Order of the Cloud and Banner;
together with buttons (10) and cloth and metal uniform insignia, good condition (lot) £30-40
Riband bar, buttons and insignia attributed to Field Marshal Sir Francis Wogan Festing. As the Order of the British Empire is in the
‘senior position’ to the Order of the Bath, the riband bar may be dated to the period 1952-57, the recipient having been awarded the C.
B.E. in 1945, C.B. in 1946, K.B.E. in 1952, K.C.B. in 1956 and G.C.B. in 1957.
Francis Wogan Festing was born in 1902 and educated at Winchester and Sandhurst. He entered the Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in the
Rifle Brigade in 1921. In 1939 he was a Lieutenant-Colonel and commanded the 2nd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment. He
commanded a Brigade in Madagascar in 1941 and commanded the 36th Division in Burma, 1942-45. Post-war he was GOC British
Troops in Egypt, 1952-54; GOC-in-C Eastern Command, 1954-56; and C-in-C. FARELF, 1956-58. Attaining the rank of Field Marshal in
1960 and Colonel Commandant of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, 1953-65, he died in 1976.
With a letter from a former owner of the Field Marshal’s uniform.
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Colonel John Herschel Glenn, Jr., United States Marine Corps, the first American to orbit the Earth
Ribbons mounted for display, to represent those of the recipient: U.S.A. Distinguished Flying Cross, with silver oak leaf
cluster; Air Medal, with three silver and three bronze oak leaf clusters; Navy Unit Commendation ribbon; Asiatic-Pacific
Campaign Medal; American Campaign Medal; Victory Medal 1945; China Service Medal 1937-57; National Defence
Service Medal; South Korean unknown; Korean Service Medal; U.N. Korea Medal; NASA Distinguished Service Medal,
these mounted on card, together with a cloth badge and a signed photograph of Glenn, good condition £20-30
With copied biographical details.
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