Single Campaign Medals 617
British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. D. L. Mc.C. Drew.) very fine M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919.
£70-£90
Douglas Laurel McCready Drew was commissioned temporary Second Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 28 December 1914, and served with both the Artillery and on attachment to the 5th Field Survey Battalion, Royal Engineers during the Great War on the Western Front from September 1915. Advanced Captain, for his services with the latter unit, specifically with the Sound Ranging Section, he was awarded the Military Cross. Post-War, he was a noted Classics scholar and Professor of Greek.
Drew’s brother, Arthur Malcolm McCready Drew, served during the Great War as an Acting Captain with the Middlesex Regiment, and was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross (London Gazette 15 March 1918).
Sold with copied Medal Index Card and London Gazette entries. x618
British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (10594 A/Sjt. G. F. T. Burgoyne R.A.; 327008 Gnr. M. C. MacLean. R.A.; 145977 Pte. A. Archer. M.G.C.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (3) (8346 Gnr. F. Crisp. R.A.; 2578 Gnr. C. W. Rust. R.A.; 97612 Pte. C. E. Ruston. M.G.C.); Memorial Plaque (Samuel Williamson) the Plaque polished, otherwise generally good very fine (7) £80-£120
Six men with the name Samuel Williamson appear on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Roll of Honour for the Great War. 619
British War Medal 1914-20 (499 Pte. W. W. Nind. 42 A.B. Ry. Bn. I.D.F.) edge prepared prior to naming, nearly extremely fine
£40-£50
C.I.E. London Gazette 1 January 1936: William Walker Nind, Esq., Imperial Customs Service, Officiating Member, Central Board of Revenue.
William Walker Nind was born on 26 September 1882, theson of Lieutenant-Colonel F. W. Nind, and was educated at Blundell’s School, Tiverton, and Balliol College, Oxford. He joined the Indian Imperial Customs Service in 1906 and served as a Collector of Customs in Rangoon, Chittagong, Bombay, and Calcutta. He served as part of the British Delegation at the Anglo-Afghan Trade Conference, 1922-23, and as Leader of the Indian Trade Delegation to Afghanistan in 1934. His final appointment was as Officiating Member, Central Board of Revenue from April 1935. For his services he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in the 1936 New Year’s Honours’ List. He retired in 1937, and died in Oxford on 11 November 1964.
Sold with copied research. 620 British War Medal 1914-20 (1 Col. Indra Shum Shere Jung, P.G.) very fine
C.I.E. London Gazette 4 February 1919: ‘For services in connection with the War.’
Colonel Manyabara-Nepal-Tara Indra Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana was born at Seto Durbar, Kathmandu, and was educated at Narayanhiti and Durbar High Schools, Kathmandu. Advanced Colonel in 1908, he served with the Nepalese contingent during the Third Afghan War , and was awarded both the C.I.E. and the Order for the Star of Nepal, 3rd Class. He died on 3 June 1926.
Note: The recipient’s son, Colonel Toran Shamsher Jung Bahadur Rana, commanded the Shee Nath Regiment during the Second World War, and his medals were sold in these rooms in February 2019.
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Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Charles Freeman); Pacific Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; Imperial Service Medal,
G.VI.R., 2nd issue (Arthur Henry Impey) in its Royal Mint case of issue; Indian Army L.S. & G.C.,
G.VI.R. (8885 Nk. Dev Inder Nath, R.A.) very fine (6)
£60-£80 x622
Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (297295. F. E. Talbot, Sto. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Dartmouth.) edge bruise, very fine
£70-£90
Frederick Edgar Talbot was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, on 13 September 1881, and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class on 6 May 1901. He joined H.M.S. Dartmouth on 1 June 1913, and served in her during operations in the Persian Gulf that year. He was admitted to Plymouth Naval Hospital on 9 June 1915, and was shore pensioned later that month.
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Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2009. Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (MX.55115 G. M. Brown. A/E,R.A.4, R.N.) very fine
x624 x625 626 627 x628 £80-£100
Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (K.X.87425. J. Porter. Sto.1. R.N.) edge bruise, worn in parts, good fine
£60-£80
Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (JX.141237 H. C. Spencer.
O.Tel. R.N.) good very fine £70-£90
Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, S.E. Asia 1945-46 (CH/X.1275 C. F. Mills. A/Ty/Sgt. R.M.) very fine £200-£240
Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Minesweeping 1945-51 (P/KX599681 J. M. Waite Sto. Mech RN) very fine £100-£140
Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Minesweeping 1945-51 (KX151632 G A Ward Sto(3) RN) in named card box of issue, extremely fine
£140-£180
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