Miscellaneous 773


2nd Foot Meritorious Service Cross for 10 Years’ Service, silver, X incised on obverse, reverse engraved (Queens Royals For Ten Years Meritorious Service to Patrick Smith) fitted with replacement ring suspension, nearly very fine


£300-£400


Ref: Balmer R150a. Provenance: N. E. C. Molyneux Collection.


Patrick Smith was born in County Kildare in 1806 and enlisted into the 2nd Foot in February 1825. He was promoted to Corporal in January 1827 and to Sergeant one year later. He served in India and Afghanistan and was present at the capture of the fortress at Ghuznee in July 1839, and at Khelat in November 1839, where he was severely wounded in the left thigh, being discharged as a result of his wound in June 1841, after 16 years 131 days with the colours. Sold with copied discharge papers


. 774


Derby Boer War Tribute Medal, S. Africa 1901-2, silver, six pointed star, 43 x 30mm, Garter inscribed ‘S. Africa 1901-2’ around gilt central medallion bearing a stag encircled by a fence, and the points of the arms decorated with a fleur de lis, the reverse inscribed, ‘Lc. Cpl. .. Malle..’, but partly obscured by brooch fitting affixed to the reverse, lacking usual rings for suspension, nearly very fine and rare


£200-£260 Ref: Hibbard A10.


Recipient identified as 7466 Lance-Corporal A. W. Mallett, 1st Volunteer Battalion, Derbyshire Regiment. Sold with copied discharge papers and extract from contemporary newspapers


. 775 Memorial Plaque (The Hon. Arthur Cameron Corbett) extremely fine See Lot 12 for the medals awarded to his brother 776 £300-£400


The Hon. Arthur Cameron Corbett was the son of 1st Baron Rowallan, of Rowallan, Ayrshire. A Flight Lieutenant in No. 8 Squadron, Royal Naval Air Service, he was killed flying a Nieuport Scout in combat with an enemy aircraft and was shot down near Flers on 4 December 1916. He is buried in Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt L’abbe.


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A Polar Exploration Medal commemorating the death of Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1936, by P. Richer and E. Lindauer, 68mm, bronze, the obverse featuring a bust of the subject facing right in high relief, the reverse featuring a starboard ship-portrait of the Pourquo-Pas?, good very fine


£280-£320


Charcot’s Antarctic expedition in the Pourquoi-Pas? lasted from 1909-1911. He went on to command a Q-Ship in the Royal Navy during the Great War, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Charcot lost his life on the night of 15 September 1936 when the Pourquoi-Pas? sank during a storm off Iceland


. 777


A Portrait Miniature of a Field Officer of the Peninsula War A good quality oval portrait miniature on ivory of an officer in uniform, wearing a Field Officer’s Army Gold Medal, unsigned, contained in glazed gilt frame with plaited hair in reverse inset, slight cracking to reverse of frame, otherwise very fine condition


£200-£300 www.dnw.co.uk all lots are illustrated on our website and are subject to buyers’ premium at 24% (+VAT where applicable)


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