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Brigadier-General Charles Edward Every Francis Kirwan Macquoid, C.I.E., D.S.O., Indian Army
Riband bar, pin-backed (lacking pin), bearing the ribbons: Order of the Indian Empire; Distinguished Service Order;
India General Service 1895-1902; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902; 1914 Star, with silver rosette; British War Medal
1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. oak leaf; India General Service 1908-35; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937,
good condition £20-40
Riband bar attributed to Brigadier-General Charles Edward Every Francis Kirwan Macquoid. Born in 1869 and educated at Dover
College. He entered the Army, as a 2nd Lieutenant with the King’s Regiment, in 1888. Later with the Indian Army, he was
Commandant of the 4th Cavalry, 1916-19. He served in the military operations on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1895-96, at Tirah, the
operations against the Khani Khel Chamkanis, Mohmand and Samana, for which he was awarded the I.G.S. 1895 with three clasps,
was mentioned in despatches and was awarded the D.S.O. He then served in the Boer War, being awarded the Queen’s medal with
one clasp. In the Great War, he served in France, Egypt and Mesopotamia, 1914-18, being mentioned in despatches and attaining the
rank of Brigadier-General in 1918. He was G.O.C. Kuki Punitive Measures, 1918, for which he was awarded the C.I.E., and G.O.C.
Brigade Afghan Frontier, 1919. Brigadier-General Macquoid died in 1945. With copied research.
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General Sir Richard Nugent O’Connor, K.T., G.C.B., D.S.O., M.C., Commander of the Western Desert Corps, 1940-41
Photograph of the General with Bedouin Arabs and others, signed, ‘R N O’Connor, general in Comd. Western Desert
Force’; together with a leather wallet/notebook cover, inscribed, ‘Dick’, photo with fold mark, notebook cover in good
condition (3) £50-70
Richard Nugent O’Connor was born in 1889. Educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He served in
the Great War being mentioned in despatches on nine occasions, and was awarded the D.S.O. and Bar. M.C. and Italian Al Valor
Militare in silver. Between the wars he was GSO 2nd Grade, War Office, 1932-34; Commander of the Peshawar Brigade, India, 1936
-38 and Military Governor of Jerusalem, 1938-39. In the Second World War he commanded the Western Desert Corps in the successful
Libyan campaign, 1940-41. O’Connor was captured by the Germans on 7 April 1941 and spent two years as a prisoner-of-war of the
Italians until he escaped in 1943. He then commanded VIII Corps in Normandy and in Operation Market Garden. For his wartime
services he was mentioned in despatches, awarded the C.B. in 1940; and K.C.B. in 1941. He was further honoured with the G.C.B. in
1947 and K.T. in 1971. Post-war he was A.D.C. to the King, 1946; Commandant of the Army Cadet Force, Scotland, 1948-59; Colonel
of the Cameronians, 1951-54; and Lord Lieutenant for the County of Ross and Cromarty, 1955-64. General Sir Richard O’Connor died
in 1981.
With a letter hand-written by General O’Connor to a Mr Woodcock:
‘Dear Mr Woodcock, I am afraid I have not got anything of the things you want. And the best I can do is first a photograph taken in the
Western Desert of Bedouin Arabs. And secondly a note book I carried part of the War & partly in peace. It is a personal one which I
hope you wont mind’ (signed) ‘R. N. O’Connor’.
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Admiral Sir William Christopher Pakenham, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., Royal Navy
Riband bar, on buckram, in four strips, bearing the ribbons: Order of the Bath; Order of St. Michael & St. George; Royal
Victorian Order; 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19; France, Legion of Honour; France,
Croix de Guerre 1914-18; U.S.A., Distinguished Service Medal (Navy); Russia, Order of St. Stanislaus; Japan, War Medal
1904-05; Japan, Order of the Rising Sun
Together with an Order of the Bath, full sash; Japan, Order of the Rising Sun, evening sash; Order of St. Michael & St.
George, neck cravat; and a length (116mm.) of U.S.A. Distinguished Service Medal (Navy) ribbon, good condition (lot)
£60-80
William Christopher Pakenham was born in 1861, the second son of Rear-Admiral Hon. Thomas Alexander Pakenham, R.N. He
entered the Royal Navy in 1874, attained the rank of Captain in 1903 and was promoted to Vice-Admiral in 1918 and Admiral in 1922.
He was Naval Attache to Japan and China, 1904-06 - at which time he received the Order of the Rising Sun, and was a Lord
Commissioner of the Admiralty, 1911-13. During the Great War he commanded the 3rd Cruiser Squadron, 1913-17 and was the Rear-
Admiral commanding the Battle Cruiser Fleet, 1917-19. For his wartime services he was awarded the K.C.B. (1916); K.C.V.O. (1917);
and K.C.M.G. (1919). Post-war he was President of the R.M. College, Greenwich, 1919-20; C-in-C. of the North American and West
Indies Station, 1920-22. Pakenham retired from the Royal Navy in 1926, having been promoted in the Order of the Bath, to G.C.B. in
1925. Appointed Bath King of Arms, 1930-33. Admiral Sir William Pakenham died in July 1933.
With copied research and certified provenance of the riband bar and ribbon. His insignia was sold in Christies, 20 November 1984.
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Miss Emma Maria Pearson and Miss Louise E. MacLaughlin, National Aid Society
An original photograph of each of the ladies mounted on card, each in uniform, wearing medals from the Franco-
Prussian War 1870-71 and the Turko-Serbian War 1876, that of Pearson, incribed in a shaky hand, ‘Emma M. Pearson
1877’; that of MacLoughlin, inscribed in the same hand, ‘Louise E. McLaughlin taken in 1877’; on the back of both
cards is a hand-written list of the medals and insignia they are wearing, good condition; with short lengths of ribbon
representing the ladies’ medals: Prussia, War Medal 1870-71, non-combatants; Hesse-Darmstadt, Military Sanitary Cross
1870-71; France, Cross of Honour of the Red Cross Society of France; Serbia, Order of Takova; together with two old
multi-coloured ribbon strips, these a little frayed and worn (lot) £40-60
Emma M. Pearson and Louise E. MacLaughlin were two of the earliest Red Cross Volunteers to work amongst the battle casualties of
Europe. Emma Pearson’s first experience of war wounded was when she and two other ladies and a maid visited the battlefield of
Mentana, near Rome in 1867. Both Emma Pearson and Louise MacLoughlin were amongst the first to volunteer for the National Society
for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War (soon abbreviated to the National Aid Society) - an organisation that eventually became the
British Red Cross Society. The two women were detailed to the ‘English Column’ which comprised 1 surgeon, 4 ladies, 1 paid nurse
and 1 male secretary, who were detailed to serve in Sedan, August-October 1870.
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