Campaign Groups and Pairs 101 Pair: Private B. McBride, Manchester Regiment


Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (1164. Pte. B. McBride. 1/Manch: R.); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed, edge bruising and contact pitting from star, therefore good fine (2)


£140-£180 102 Five: Petty Officer C. L. Timms, Royal Navy


East and West Africa 1887-1900, 2 clasps, Brass River 1895, Benin 1897 (C. L. Timms, A.B., H.M.S. Barrosa) re- engraved naming, first clasp sprung at one side; 1914-15 Star (138700, C. L. Timms. P.O.2. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (138700 C. L. Timms. P.O.2. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (C. L. Timms, Boatn. H.M. Coast Guard) naming officially re-impressed, nearly very fine (5)


£80-£120 103 Four: Private W. Burton, Northamptonshire Regiment, later Royal Engineers


India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (3691 Pte. W. Burton 1st Bn. Northn Regt.); 1914-15 Star (87789 Spr. W. Burton. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (87789 Cpl. W. Burton. R.E.) very fine (4)


£120-£160


William Burton was born in Peterborough, Huntingdon, and attested for the Northamptonshire Regiment at Peterborough on 29 December 1891, aged 19 years 9 months, a labourer by trade. He served with the 1st Battalion in India from 4 October 1892 to 3 March 1902, when he transferred to the 2nd Battalion for service in South Africa until 22 September 1902. He was discharged on 28 September 1903. He re-enlisted in London on 13 April 1915, aged 42, now a platelayer by trade, and served at Gallipoli from 20 September 1915, with 117 Railway Company, Royal Engineers.


Sold with copied discharge papers and Medal Index Card which confirm I.G.S. and 1914-15 Trio. 104 Pair: Private William Cranage, Royal Warwickshire Regiment


Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3841 Pte. W. Cranage. 1/R. War: R.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (3841. Private W. Cranage. 1st Roy. Warwickshire Regt.) regimentally impressed naming, light contact marks, otherwise better than very fine (2)


£380-£420


William Cranage was born in Birmingham and attested there for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 3 March 1893, aged 19 years 6 months, a polisher by trade. He was discharged at Warwick on 2 March 1905, on completion of his 1st period of engagement.


Sold with original parchment certificates of discharge and character, Third Class Certificate of Education, and a regimental Christmas card.


105 Pair: Petty Officer S. T. Payne, Royal Navy


Queen’s South Africa 1899-1901, no clasp (S. T. Payne, P.O. 1st Cl: H.M.S. Monarch); British War Medal 1914-20 (130197 S. T. Payne. P.O. R.N.), good very fine (2)


£100-£140


Samuel Thomas Payne was born in St Andrews, Devon, on 4 October 1869 and entered naval service on 14 January 1885, serving until he transferred to the Royal Fleet Reserve on 2 October 1909. Recalled for service on the outbreak of the Great War, he served until demobilisation in December 1918.


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Four: Captain Sir William F. Miller, Bt., Imperial Yeomanry, later British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem


Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut. Sir W. F. Miller. Bart. 18/Impl. Yeo.); 1914 Star (Sir W. F. Miller. B.R.C.S. & O.St.J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. Sir W. F. Miller Bt.) mounted as worn and housed in a Gaunt, London, leather case, good very fine (4)


£700-£900


Sir William Frederick Miller, Bt., was born in April 1868, the son of Sir Thomas Macdonald Miller, 4th Baronet, of Glenlee, and succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his father in September 1875. Educated at Harrow, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant, in the 3rd Battalion, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment in 1886, before relinquishing his commission the following year. He served with the 18th (Queen's Own Royal Glasgow and Lower Ward of Lanark) Company, 6th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War, and was promoted Lieutenant on 3 July 1901, before being invalided home.


Miller subsequently served during the Great War with the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem as a Billeting Officer on the Western Front from 17 October 1914, before being appointed a Staff Captain with 17th Corps, British Expeditionary Force, and was wounded on 29 September 1918. He died on 20 December 1948.


107 Pair: Company Quarter Master Sergeant A. Hepburn, Imperial Yeomanry, later Royal Engineers


Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (No. 3127 Corpl. A. Hepburn. 14th Co. Imp. Yeo.) naming unofficially re-engraved; 1914-15 Star (81404. C.Q.M. Sjt. A. Hepburn, R.E.) the first re-engraved, nearly very fine (2)


£50-£70


Alexander Hepburn served in South Africa with the 14th (Northumberland) Company, 5th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, and later with the 120th (Younghusband’s Horse) Company, 26th Battalion I.Y. He was slightly wounded at Wolmaranstadt on 14 February 1901. He served in France with the Royal Engineers from 8 November 1915, and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps on 18 August 1917.


Sold with copied discharge papers and medal roll extracts.


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