MISCELLANEOUS 649 MEMORIAL PLAQUE 1914-18 (Roland Charles Racher) in card envelope, nearly extremely fine £60-80
Roland Charles Racher was born, lived and enlisted at Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Serving with the Bedfordshire Regiment, he was awarded a Military Medal (London Gazette 19 February 1917). With the 6th Battalion he was killed in action, France/Flanders, on 28 April 1917. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. With copied gazette and casualty details.
650
A poignant assortment of fire-damaged relics recovered from Sandakan in Borneo, comprising: VICTORY MEDALS 1914-19 (2) (Capt. J. A. Houston; T. Kelly, B.R.C. & St. [?]); Royal Engineers’ lapel badge and a rank shoulder pip; British North Borneo Company’s button and badge; the remnants of a lady’s bracelet and a Turkish “Gallipoli Star”, this last lacking enamel work and all badly fire-damaged, the Victory Medal to Kelly especially so (Lot)
£40-60
James Alexander Houston served in the Royal Engineers during the Great War, first entering the French theatre of war as a 2nd Lieutenant in 201 Field Company, R.E., in early November 1915. He later attained in the rank of Captain in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, with whom he no doubt obtained his souvenir “Gallipoli Star”, and was married to Theresa Kelly of the British Red Cross at Marylebone in late 1916.
Settling in British North Borneo soon after the War, initially at Jesselton, Houston was employed by the Railways Department, but the fate of husband and wife at the time of the Japanese invasion in 1942 remains unknown. As shockingly related in publications such as Lord Liverpool’s Knights of Bushido, however, it is clear the region’s inhabitants, European or otherwise, suffered greatly amidst much looting and destruction, some of them being executed in cold blood. Sandakan, from where these relics were recovered many years ago, was the scene of a P.O.W. camp, from which, in early 1945, the Japanese forced-marched nearly 2500 British and Australian prisoners to Ranau - by August 1945, just six were still alive; sold with research.
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The New York Athletic Club, Honorary Member’s gold plaque presented to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, U.S. Navy
NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB, Honorary Mmeber’s gold plaque, by Robert Stoll, New York, obv. inscription in four lines ‘New York Athletic Club, June 30th 1930, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd Honorary Member’, rev. list of Officers and Governors, 89x52mm, 14 carat, 92.53g., in its fitted presentation case, named on the lid, extremely fine
£1500-1800 Ex-Sotheby, November 1988.
Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, United States Navy, was one of America's most distinguished pioneers of long distance flight and polar exploration. Having completed the first flight over the North Pole in May 1926, for which he received the Congressional Medal of Honour, Byrd determined to make the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic ocean from west to east. With two companions, Byrd took off from New York in the Fokker trimotor “America” on the 29 June, 1927 and, after 42 hours in the air, reached the coast of France and crash landed at Ver-sur-Mer in Brittany. Byrd and his two companions were given a hero's welcome in New York with an official reception by the Mayor who presented Byrd with the Medal of Valour. In recognition of his outstanding achievements Byrd received a great number of official and Society awards.
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The New York City Public Schools’ Athletic League gold medal presented to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, U.S. Navy
NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS’ ATHLETIC LEAGUE, gold medal, by Dieges and Clust, New York, obv. Winged Goddess of Samothrace in a panel dividing the date 1930, rev. engraved in six lines ‘Achievement through Fitness, Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Inaugural Award by the Public Schools Athletic League’, 68mm, 18 carat, 109.7g., in its fitted presentation case, extremely fine
£2200-2600 Ex-Sotheby, November 1988.
Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, United States Navy, was one of America's most distinguished pioneers of long distance flight and polar exploration. Having completed the first flight over the North Pole in May 1926, for which he received the Congressional Medal of Honour, Byrd determined to make the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic ocean from west to east. With two companions, Byrd took off from New York in the Fokker trimotor “America” on the 29 June, 1927 and, after 42 hours in the air, reached the coast of France and crash landed at Ver-sur-Mer in Brittany. Byrd and his two companions were given a hero's welcome in New York with an official reception by the Mayor who presented Byrd with the Medal of Valour. In recognition of his outstanding achievements Byrd received a great number of official and Society awards.
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