Single : QUEENS SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL 1899 three clasps : CC,OFS,T." impressed 426 Pte. T. Lounds. Manch.Rgt.
VF $345
GH13: Five: 1939-45 & Pacific Stars (unnamed), Defense Medal, War Medal with MID & Australian Service medals (all 3 impressed). NX28505 F. H. Bailey. Lieutenant 2/1 Survey Regt. (Sgt. For his MID).
Enlisted 5.8.40 Arrived Middle East 3.5.41 to late for Africa Star.
MID: London Gazette 27.4.44 For exceptional services in the field in New Guinea.
Gd VF $1850
GH14: Five: 1939-45 & Pacific Stars (unnamed), Defense Medal, War Medal with MID & Australian Service medals (all 3 impressed). NX20408 F. N. Smith. Lieutenant 2/4 Field Ambulance.
Comes with a printed souvenir ribbon with his name dated 1940, dog tags. and original slip for his ASM.
Mentioned in book Island Campaigns at Myola.
MID: London Gazette 23.12.43. Gallant & distinguished services in SWP area.
VF $1950
GH11: Six: BEM EIIR Civil, Africa Star, Defence, War & Australian Service Medals ALL WW2 Medals Impressed. Efficiency Decoration (engraved) Lt. Colonel QX2703 T.W. Wharton 2/9 Bn.
BEM: Community Service 1.01.73
ED: Commonwealth Gazette 22 February 1947
Comes with a massive amount of research which includes correspondence on his quest for a 39-45 Star. It appears some of the areas he went to were not operational, however it is a nice group to an Infantry officer.
VF $1850
GH10: Five: 1939-45 with 8th Army clasp & Pacific Stars (unnamed), Defence, War plus MID & Australian Service Medals. Impressed. NX20175 R. A. Carr S/SGT. 2/3rd Anti Tank Regt. Unofficial engraved Tobruk medal included in lot
MID: London Gazette 30th June 1942.
For Gallant and Distinguished Services in the Middle East during the period July 1941 to October 1941.
Note; A large number of Tobruk siege were mentioned in this Gazette. The 8th Army clasp would also indicate El Alamein. A nice Tobruk gallantry.
Gd VF $2350
Four: MBE type2 (Military), MSM Commonwealth of Australia G. V. R. 59 WO 1 A. B. Webber A.I.C., 1935 Jubilee (confirmed), 1937 Coronation (un-confirmed).
MBE: London Gazette 1.1.1936
MSM: A.A.O. 256/25
Entitled to LSGC MO 535/1918. Research shows enlisted 28.3.1900 R.A.A. transferring to A.I.C. 1905. Discharged 1938 as a Second Lieutenant.
VF $875
Eight: 39-45, Africa & Pacific Stars, Defence & War Medals & Australian Service Medal ALL IMPRESSED. UN Korea impressed. Army LSGC engraved, SX8522 W. T. C. Saunders 2/43 BN.
Middle East 29 December 1940. Injured in a Land Mine incident 15 June 1941in Tobruk. RTA 28 February 1943. Morotai for Tarakan 22 April 1945 with 28 Field company engineers. BCOF 18 May 1948 then 3 RAR. Discharged 9 February 1962. With full-service details by Neil Smith.
Gd VF $1100
GH6: Six: 39-45, Africa clasp 8th Army & Pacific stars (unnamed), Defence medal, War medal with MID & Australian Service Medal, last 3 are impressed. NX17879 SGT A.J. Quick 2/17th Bn. AIF.
MID: Awarded for Service in the Middle East vide Commonwealth Gazette Number 53 of 16th March 1944 and General Orders of the 31st of August 1943.
MID confirmed plus photocopy of NCO’s (in which he is identified) on page 89 of unit History “What we have we Hold”.
A nice Battalion group to a Tobruk Veteran.
VF $2200
Single: Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Cr. Sgt. T. Burdett, North’d Fus. 2nd Sept. 1898)
D.C.M. London Gazette 15 November 1898.
Thomas Burdett was born in Bradford, Yorkshire and enlisted in the Northumberland Fusiliers in May 1883, aged 20 years. A carpenter by trade, he was also a member of the 4th (Militia) Battalion, Derbyshire Regiment. He went on to gain rapid promotion, being advanced to Corporal in December 1883 and to Sergeant in February 1885, in which latter month he arrived in India. Burdett was subsequently employed in the Hazara Expedition of 1888, gained advancement to Colour-Sergeant in September 1889 and returned home in early 1894. Then in January 1898, following a posting to Gibraltar, he participated in the operations leading to the re-conquest of the Sudan, and won his D.C.M. for bravery at Omdurman. At the end of the same year, Burdett returned home to take up an appointment with the 1st Volunteer Battalion.
In June 1899, the St. George’s Gazette reported:
‘After the inspection and drill by senior officers of the Regiment, Colonel Garstin presented the Khedive’s Medal to Sergeant-Instructor T. Burdett. On presenting the Medal Colonel Garstin complimented Sergeant-Instructor Burdett on his well-earned honour; and also drew the attention of the Brigade to the fact this N.C.O. was to receive the Medal for Distinguished Conduct in the Field, which he earned at the Battle of Omdurman, especially remarking to the Volunteers that the Medal was the next highest honour to be obtained by a soldier to the Victoria Cross.’
The following feature appeared in the same publication in December 1899:
‘At Windsor Castle yesterday afternoon, the Queen decorated Colour-Sergeant F. (sic) Burdett of the 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, with the medal for distinguished conduct in the field. Her Majesty also decorated four officers with the Distinguished Service Order. Princess Beatrice accompanied the Queen, and Sir John McNeill and Colonel Carington were in attendance. When the gallant Sergeant marched up the Grand Corridor to the Queen, he found Her Majesty sitting in a low chair. Colonel Carington introduced him. Burdett dropped on one knee, and the Queen spoke a few kind words to him, congratulating him on his gallantry. She then fastened the medal on his breast. The Colour-Sergeant bowed to Her Majesty, and the little ceremony was over.’
And Burdett afterwards gave an interview to the Morning Leader:
‘Windsor Castle was magnificent and he [Burdett] was particularly interested in the Khalifa’s black flag in the Castle, riddled as it is with English bullets. Burdett possesses two other medals - the Black Mountain Expedition and the Khedive’s, and is entitled to the English war medal for Khartoum. He is now attached to the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Hearing that one of the men of his regiment was the present Barrack Warden at Victoria Barracks, Windsor, Burdett paid him a visit, and the old comrades were glad to meet. Sergeant-Major Fowles of the 1st Grenadiers, also warmly welcomed Burdett as an old chum.’
Soon after his visit to Windsor Castle, Burdett was advanced to Sergeant-Major on the Permanent Staff of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion and was finally discharged at Newcastle in November 1904. Many years later he was admitted as an In-pensioner to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, where he died in April 1943, aged 84 years.
Ex DNW 2nd April 2003
engraved brackets added to date, contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise generally very fine $3900
GH4: Six: 39-45, Africa & Pacific Stars Defence, War MID & Australian Service Medals ALL correctly impressed. VX5248 R. L. Jenkins WO2 2/5th Bn.
MID: London Gazette 23.6.42 Awarded MID 19th July 1941 for service in North Africa.
Operations in North Africa from January 1941 including Bardia. To Greece 9th April 1941, withdrawn under fire May 1941 then operations against the Vichy French from May to July. RTA 1942 then to New Guinea 17th November 1942. Medically downgraded June 1944 to Water transport in QLD.
With original HQ records letter confirming all awards.
Near EF $2250
