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ORIGINAL ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS, CUTTINGS AND DRAWINGS relating to Major William F. Lascelles, Scots Guards, 370 x 280mm., cloth and leather bound, leather spine missing, front cover a little slack, general wear to covers, some internal boards loose, contents generally good and interesting
£160-200
William F. Lascelles was born in Berlin on 21 March 1868, the eldest son of the Rt. Hon. Sir Frank Lascelles, sometime British Ambassador to Berlin. He was commissioned into the Scots Guards on 15 May 1889, promoted to Lieutenant on 20 July 1892 and to Captain on 7 July 1899. He served as Regimental Adjutant to the Scots Guards, 13 December 1899-30 April 1900. On 1 April 1904 he attained the rank of Major.
Lascelles served as A.D.C. to the Governor General of the Dominion of Canada, 3 November 1898-13 October 1899. He served with his regiment in the Second Boer War and was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901). During the course of the war, as an officer in the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards, he was appointed Town Commandant of Harrismith, November 1900; a Press Censor, April 1901, Assistant Intelligence Officer, April 1901 and a Railway Staff Officer, December 1901. He returned to England in March 1902. After the war he served as A.D.C. to the General Commanding the Forces in Ireland and the IIIrd Army Corps, 18 March 1902-30 April 1904.
The first page of the album is dated, ‘Canada, Nov. 3rd 1898’. The early part of the album features photographs and cuttings relating to Lascelles’ time in Canada as A.D.C. to the Governor General, the Earl of Minto; followed by cuttings and photographs relating to his wedding in November 1899 to Lady Sybil Beauclerk, daughter of the Duke of St. Albans.
Cuttings and photographs having a connection to the Boer War then follow, including some relating to Lascelles appointment as Town Commandant of Harrismith in November 1900 and some photographs of Boer prisoners of war being transported to St. Helena, including General Ben Viljoen. Photographs of Ireland follow as Lascelles took up the position of A.D.C. to the Duke of Connaught, General Commanding the Forces in Ireland and the 3rd Army Corps. Then follows photographs and cuttings relating to the enthronement of the King of Spain and the Coronation of King Edward VII; and end with a shooting party with the Duke of Connaught, a visit to his father at the British Embassy in Berlin and other photographs.
Amongst some loose papers relating to the Boer War, is one typescript concerning the assembly of personnel for a military court set to try Jacobus Johannes de Jager, a prisoner of war of Harrismith District - Captain Lascelles being one of the Members of the Court. Another paper, a hand-written letter addressed to Lascelles, dated 18 March 1901, indicates that things went badly for de Jager:
‘Dear Lascelles, Will you please arrange for the removal of J. de Jager to the cell in the gaol after dark this evening & for a guard being placed over him there - One sentry must be always in the cell & one outside. I suggest the prisoner & escort being driven up in an ambulance or some covered vehicle if it can be arranged. The guard should be withdrawn when the Military Police & Executioner go in to pinion the man and should file outside the gaol. .... The execution will be at 7 am sharp tomorrow.’
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PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS (4) which cover the career of Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander William Peter Rainier, Royal Navy, approx. 1910-30; together with the ‘Journal of C. Rainier’, a naval ancestor, being his hand-written diary entries for the months of July-August 1823, albums and journal covers worn, contents aged but in fairly good condition (5) £40-80
William Peter Rainier, the scion of a distinguished naval family, was born in October 1888 and entered the Royal Navy as an Acting Clerk in January 1906. Advanced to Assistant Paymaster in December 1909, the outbreak of hostilities found him employed at the Malta base Egmont, but additional for duty in the cruiser H.M.S. Blenheim, in which capacity he served until November 1917, thereby witnessing action in the Dardanelles and elsewhere in the Mediterranean theatre of war. He was awarded the Italian Al Valore Militare in Bronze (London Gazette 17 November 1917) which no doubt stemmed from the recommendation of Captain Coode, who found him to be a most able officer and worthy of appointment as a Secretary to a Flag Officer. And so it transpired, Rainier joining the Staff of Rear-Admiral Bernard back in the U.K. at Portland, in which post he remained employed until the end of the War, gaining advancement to Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander in October 1919.
The five albums cover the approximate period, 1910-1930, and record the British Fleet at work in all corners of the globe (China Station, West Africa Station, etc.), including some splendid views of capital ships such as the King Edward VII and Malaya, but also, in an album dedicated to his time at Portland, 1918-19, approximately 60 “Seaplane Photographs” of assorted convoys, etc., an extraordinarily thorough record of the shore establishment itself, and its “Listening School” and related vessels (approximately 125 images, including buildings, W.R.N.S. staff, sporting events, etc.), right through to scenes from the surrender of the German Fleet. Over 400 photographs. With the “Journal of C. Rainier”, a naval ancestor, being his diary entries for the months of July-August 1823, 16pp.
Rainier’s 1914-15 Star, British War and Victory Medals and Al Valore Militare were previously sold with the albums in D.N.W. 5 April 2006, lot 970.
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GRANT OFARMs, an Original Illuminated Grant of Arms, on vellum, to Kenneth Franklin Barratt, from the Royal College of Arms, dated 1905, with appropriate signatures, complete with seals and contained in red leather box with gilt
E.VII.R. cyphers to lid, case with some signs of wear, contents in good condition; with two other unrelated seals, these in fairly good condition (lot)
£100-140
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