Campaign Groups and Pairs 364
An interesting Great War group of five awarded to Captain M. W. Hilton-Simpson, the noted African traveller and ethnologist who served with the Royal Army Service Corps during the war
1914-15 Star (Lieut: M. W. Hilton-Simpson. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. M. W. Hilton-Simpson.); France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamels; Belgium, Royal Order of the Lion, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamels, good very fine (5)
£500-£600
Melville William Hilton-Simpson was born in 1881, oldest child of Rev. William Hilton and Emma Ellen Soames; surname of Simpson added in 1888. He was educated at Wellington College and Exeter College, Oxford,
B.Sc. Travelled the Barbary States and Sahara, 1903-06; accompanied Mr Emile Torday on an ethnological expedition to the Kasai Basin, Belgian Congo, to collect for the Department of Ethnography, British Museum, and first traversed the country of the Bakongo and Bashilele, 1907-09; from 1912, excluding the period of the war, has, with his wife, been engaged in a detailed ethnological study of Berber hill tribes in Southern Algeria, among whom they have spent seven winters to date. Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, 1927; Chevalier of the Royal Order of the Lion, 1930; Corresponding Member of the Royal Belgian Geographical Society, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S., F.R.A.I.; Rivers Medallist, 1932; member of the Geographical Societies of Paris, America, and Algiers, and of other scientific bodies; served in European War on Western Front; retired with rank of Captain. Publications: Algiers and Beyond; Land and People of the Kasai; Among the Hill-Folk of Algeria; Arab Medicine and Surgery; numerous papers for the journals of various societies, mainly on geographical and ethnological subjects. He died on 17 March 1938.
Sold with a first edition (1911) of Land and Peoples of the Kasai, inscribed by the author ‘To E. L. Gowlland in memory of auld lang syne, Nov. 9th 1911’.
365 Three: Lieutenant H. S. Middleton, Lincolnshire Regiment, late Royal Army Medical Corps
1914-15 Star (33096, Pte. H. S. Middleton. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (
2.Lieut. H. S. Middleton.); Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, Fifth Class breast badge, by Lattes, Cairo, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, scratch marks to reverse of Star, nearly very fine (4)
£220-£260
Herbert Shelton Middleton was born in 1891 at Stamford, Lincolnshire. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War in the Egyptian Theatre from 27 July 1916 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant into the Lincolnshire Regiment on 29 August 1917. Serving with the 6th (Service) Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, he was subsequently attached to the 1st Reserve Garrison Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, and relinquished his commission on 1 September 1921, retaining the rank of Lieutenant.
Order of the Nile not confirmed.
Sold together with an “Active Service” New Testament 1917, inscribed by hand inside the front end leaf ‘To my godson. A memento of the Great War from the Rev: H. W. Kingsley. Chaplain to the Forces.’
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Three: Corporal D. A. Cumming, 8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 26 September 1916
1914-15 Star (22039 Pte. D. A. Cumming. 8/Can: Inf:); British War and Victory Medals (22039 Cpl. D. A. Cumming. 8- Can. Inf.) very fine (3)
£60-£80
David Alexander Cumming was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and having emigrated to Toronto, Ontario, attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Valcartier on 24 September 1914. He served with the 8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 26 September 1916. He is buried in Courcelette British Cemetery, France.
367 Three: Private L. F. Vizard, 31st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force
1914-15 Star (38 Pte L. F. Vizard. 31 Bn. A.I.F.); British War and Victory Medals (38 Pte L. F. Vizard. 31-Bn. A.I.F.) mounted as worn, nearly very fine (3)
£70-£90
Leslie Frank Vizard was born in London in 1896 and having emigrated to Australia attested for the Australian Imperial Force at Brisbane on 8 June 1915. He served with the 31st Battalion during the Great War, before transferring to the 5th Pioneer Battalion on 3 March 1916. He was discharged in England on 7 April 1919.
Sold with copied research. For the recipient’s brother’s medals, see Lot 347.
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