MISCELLANEOUS 655
G.C. INTEREST: A Victoria Cross and George Cross Association Christmas Card, inscribed in ink, ‘From our Chairman and all the members of the Committee, yours Odette Hallowes’, card interior bearing a photograph of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II Patron of the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association, very good condition
PAPERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS relating to Sergeant Frank James William Adams, M.M., Royal Flying Corps - Certificate of Transfer to Reserve; booklet Instructions to Operators R.F.C. Mesopotamia, August, 1917; related photographs (10) - most identified, fairly good condition (lot) £40-60
G.C. London Gazette 20 August 1946. Awarded to Odette Marie Céline Sansom, nee Brailly, for her great bravery as an agent in France, who was captured, brutally interrogated and imprisoned in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp. She married her fellow agent Peter Churchill in 1947 and after a divorce, married Geoffrey Hallowes in 1956. She died in 2006. With copied research.
M.M. London Gazette 17 September 1917. ‘6642 1st Cl. A./M. F. J. W. Adams, R. F.C. (Blackheath, S.E.)’ Items to Adams with copied death certificate and gazette extract.
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A FIRST EDITION PRINT ENTITLED “SPITFIRE” BY ROBERT TAYLOR, depicting Douglas Bader and Johnnie Johnson in their Spitfires over the coast, published by Universal Promotions Ltd. (Military & Marine), Bath, England, 1979, 41cm. by 53cm., signed by Bader and Johnson in pencil on titled border, mounted on board, generally in excellent condition £80-100
657
A STOP-WATCH, by Bittman, St. Moritz, silvered-metal case, the reverse of the case inscribed, ‘Captain W. A. Colhoun, 15 P.R.’; together with pocket watch, by Jaeger- Le Coultre, with short-leather strap and leather case, an attached label stating ‘Watch of Brig. H. S. Moberly’ (2)
£40-60
Colhoun served in France and Flanders, and Greek Macedonia, during the Great War, winning the M.C. and Bar and mention in despatches; so, too, another “mention” during the Waziristan operations of
1920-21.Moberly, a veteran of the China 1900 operations, served for most of the Great War in Mespotamia, and was twice mentioned in despatches.
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A MID-VICTORIAN PRESENTATION PEWTER TANKARD TO LIEUTENANT-COLONEL C. PIGOU, LATE INDIAN ARMY, glass base, by Dixon & Sons, engraved with the crest of the School of Musketry, Hythe, and ‘June 1864, Best Shot No. 4 Section, Lieut. C. Pigou, 104th Regt.’, together with a later pewter tankard with inscription, ‘Officers Mess, Indian Army Ordnance Corps, Rawalpindi’, this with small dent and cracked glass base, otherwise generally in good condition (2)
£30-50
Clement Pigou entered the Bengal Army as an Ensign in 1850 and, having joined the 3rd Bengal European Regiment in early 1854, went on to witness active service in the Indian Mutiny 1857-58, when he was ‘present in the actions near Agra against the Neemuch mutineers on 5 July, and against the Indore rebels on 10 October, also with Seaton’s Column at Gungeeree and Putialee, and with the Agra Column towards Gwalior in June 1858 (Medal)’. Advanced to Captain in the 104th Regiment in October 1864, shortly after attending the Musketry School at Hythe, Pigou latterly served in the 64th Regiment and as Adjutant of the Claire Militia, prior to being placed on the Retired List as a Lt-Colonel. He died at Cheltenham in June 1885. His Indian Mutiny Medal was sold by Spink in 1988.
659 fine 660
566 Private John Evans, 66th Foot was killed in action at the battle of Maiwand. With a quantity of copied research. DEFECTIVE MEDAL: Afghanistan 1878-80 (566 Pte. J. Evans, 66th Foot) renamed, disk only - no suspension or clasp, very
£40-60
DEFECTIVE MEDALS (2) Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Witterbergen, Paardeberg, Driefontein (9583 Cpl. T. J. Atkins, 2 C.R.) all but first are copy clasps; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (9583 Cpl. T. J. Atkins, 2 C.R.) both are renamed, some edge bruising and contact marks, about very fine (2)
£70-90 661
A USEFUL QUANTITY OF BRITISH AND COMMONWEALTH MEDAL RIBAND, mainly for campaign awards but also covering gallantry and long service issues, and including lengthy rolls of riband for the First and Second China Wars, the Sutlej and Punjab campaigns, the Indian Mutiny, the Second Afghan War, and the India General Service Medals for 1854, 1895 and 1908, modern, overall in excellent condition (Lot)
£40-60 662
A USEFUL QUANTITY OF MODERN MEDAL DISPLAY CASES (20), wooden, glazed, with gilt painted fronts, various sizes for pairs or groups, generally in excellent condition (Lot)
£30-50
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