MISCELLANEOUS 423 MEMORIAL PLAQUE 1914-18 (Arthur John Kettlewood) good very fine £50-70
Arthur John Kettlewood was born in Wilberfoss, Yorkshire on 14 January 1900. He joined the Royal Air Force as a Flight Cadet on 22 April 1918. While posted at 27 Training Depot Station he ‘died as the result of an aeroplane accident’ on 22 November 1918. He was buried in St. John the Baptist, Wilberfoss Churchyard. He was the son of John and Elizabeth Kettlewood. With copied service papers.
424
MEMORIAL PLAQUE 1914-18 (Ghulam Khan), very fine
£30-50
425
MEMORIAL PLAQUE 1914-18 (James Richard Reed), together with related Buckingham Palace memorial scroll, mounted on card, with later typed inscription to base, extremely fine
£60-80
James Richard Reed was killed in action on 24 November 1917, while serving as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. The son of Frank and Elizabeth Reed of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, he was 25 years of age and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial.
426
MEMORIAL PLAQUE 1914-18 (Jacobus Victor Bekker), very fine
£40-60
Jacobus Victor Bekker is listed as a casualty on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s register on 26 October 1918, while serving in the 2nd South African Light Infantry. He is buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery.
427
MEMORIAL PLAQUE 1914-18 (Jack Goldsmith), good very fine
£40-60
Attributed to Private Jack Goldsmith, 1/3rd Battalion, London Regiment, who was killed in action on 1 July 1916, but there are other men with these names on the Commonwealth War Grave Commission’s register.
428
SUDAN DEFENCE FORCE L.S. & G.C., bronze, unnamed, no ribbon, edge bruising, some contact marks, very fine £150-200
The Long Service and Good Conduct Medal was instituted on 4 November 1933, for award to personnel of the Sudan Defence Force (SDF) and Police, on the recommendation of the Kaid El’Amm for 18 years good conduct in the EA or SDF. Service as a boy does not count towards the medal. A bronze medal with the cypher of the Governor General of the Sudan on the obverse, and on the reverse a trophy of arms, with the words “The Sudan - For Long Service and Good Conduct” in Arabic. The ribbon is green, with broad black edges. A scarce medal with only 931 struck. Issued named and numbered.
429
RENAMED MEDALS (2): Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (5777 Pte. J. W. Argent, Gren. Gds.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (5777 Pte. J. W. Argent, Grenadier Gds) both renamed, some contact marks, very fine (2)
£70-90
430
END OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR, 1900, a bronze medal by E. Fuchs, 70mm., ref: BHM 3679; E 1850a, good very fine £40-50 431
PEKING SIEGE COMMEMORATION MEDAL 1900, obverse: the Ch’ien Men engulfed in flames, in the exergue a cannon, ‘junii xx - augusti xiv’, reverse: Britannia and Germania standing facing, clasping hands, a Chinese female standing behind; below a dragon, legend around ‘ichabod! mene. mene. tekel. upharsin.’, 57mm., bronze, unnamed, ref. B.H.M. 3672, E.1842, nearly very fine and rare
£200-250
The Peking Siege Commemoration Medal is a most interesting piece and rarely encountered. They were struck at the instigation of Mr Arthur D. Brent, an employee of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, who was himself present throughout the siege and whose medals were sold in these rooms on 25 February 1998. A limited number only were struck and named for those actually present at the siege.
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