Jacka’s Mob by E. J. Rule (1999)
SOLD
Kangaroo standing on top of the phrase.
"I GO TO RETURN" inside a blue enamel bomerang.
Marked Sterling & registration No with chain.
$295
$30
King’s Shropshire Light Infantry Officer’s Helmet Plate.
A good Victorian example with a gilt Victorian crowned star mounted with a Garter and laurel sprays bearing a silver regimental title scroll ‘King’s Shropshire Lt Infy’ with a green enamel centre with a strung silver bugle with entwined initials ‘KSLI’ below the bugle strings, the reverse with three lugs,
enamel damage to the bottom right, very little gilding remaining, otherwise good condition $385
$20
$20
KNIGHTED GROUP TO A WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT & LIBERAL LEADER
Six: Knights Bachelor Badge, 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel with hallmarks, British War, Victory Medal, 1935 GV Jubilee Medal, 1937 GVI Coronation Medal and 1953 EII Coronation Medal. WW1 pair correctly impressed to T-CAPTAIN R. MC DONALD A.I.F. with Jubilee and Coronation medals un-named as issued.
EMB: 2nd October 1916 as 2nd Lieutenant with the 39th Battery, 119th Howitzer Battery 4th Division Artillery
Promoted Lieutenant 1st August 1917
Promoted Temporary Captain 3rd February 1919
RTA: 28th July 1919
Returned to Legal profession becoming a partner with the firm Robinson Cox & Wheatley, Perth WA
Member of army reserve 1920-32 (Promoted Captain 20th October 1925)
A.D.C. To Governor of W.A. 1925-31
Member of W.A. Legislative Assembly 1933-1950
Appointed King’s Counsellor 12th May 1936
Founder and original president National Trust
Knighted: June 1950 with Knights Bachelor
Member of the Senate of University of WA 1950-51
Warden State War Memorial 1952
Chairman Royal Perth Hospital 1956-60
President, Friends of R.P.H.
Died 25th March 1964
Note: Comes with two Ross Mcdonald 1920’s Revolver Competition trophies, Photos and paperwork
Near EF SOLD
Kukri of the Kothimoda type. Circa 1850. Bone handle and clean blade mounted in a superb worked scabbard. Close examination of this silver scabbard shows quality workmanship and design with gold plaque and rose overlay. These special knives were used by senior ranking Gurkhas and are of the highest rarity. When one considers the price of gold and silver today, I believe it is very reasonably priced.
Good condition overall SOLD
$20
$50
LEANE'S BATTALION 48 Bn.AIF 1916-19 by Neville Browning.
SOLD
$40
$20
LT Gubbins Victorian Mounted Rifles is standing top left in group photo
Group of six; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; Queen’s South Africa five clasps “Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902” (2/Lieut. S. Gubbins, Rl. Fus.); 1914-15 Star (Major S. Gubbins, R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col. S. Gubbins),
It appears Stamer Gubbins was born in New Zealand on passage to Australia in 1882. Gubbins family settled in Melbourne where he was educated at Melbourne Grammar School. Joining the 5th Contingent, Victorian Mounted Rifles in 1900 as a lieutenant at the age of 18, he served in South Africa during the Boer War. After serving his full tour with the 5th VMR he went on to serve in the Royal Fusiliers in 1902.
Having then been seconded to the West African Frontier Force in Nigeria 1904-09, and been advanced to Major, Gubbins was embarked for France in June 1915, where he commanded the 9th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers from August of that year until May 1916.It was during this period that he won his D.S.O. for the Battalion’s attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt (a.k.a. The Chord) on 2 March. On that occasion, the attack was launched at 5.45 p.m. with the detonation of seven mines, the largest of which was intended to wreck the bulk of The Chord. Certainly the earth thrown up by the mines partly covered the enemy’s wire, thereby allowing Gubbins’s men - and the neighbouring 8th Battalion - to gain access to the enemy’s defences, but not without significant loss. As stated in The Royal Fusiliers in the Great War, the 9th Battalion ‘found many Germans in their sector of The Chord who, though dazed, did not surrender and had to be killed. There followed a number of fierce grenade fights, the Germans rushing down from the north end of The Chord and along the trenches leading from the east into it ... but the craters were held against enemy bombing attacks during the night.’
D.S.O. London Gazette 15 April 1916:
‘This officer commanded his Battalion in an attack, the success of which was due to the excellent organisation he had established in his Battalion, and to the fighting spirit he had fostered in it.’
O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.
“For valuable service rendered in connection with Military Operations in Egypt”
Gubbins, who was also mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 15 June 1916, refers), later served in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force as Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, services that resulted in his award of the O.B.E. After a long adventure away from Australia, Gubbins finally returned in 1938 with his wife. He died in 1940.
Mounted as worn, minor enamel damage to wreaths on the first, otherwise good very fine SOLD
LT Gubbins Victorian Mounted Rifles is standing top left in group photo
Group of six; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; Queen’s South Africa five clasps “Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902” (2/Lieut. S. Gubbins, Rl. Fus.); 1914-15 Star (Major S. Gubbins, R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col. S. Gubbins),
It appears Stamer Gubbins was born in New Zealand on passage to Australia in 1882. Gubbins family settled in Melbourne where he was educated at Melbourne Grammar School. Joining the 5th Contingent, Victorian Mounted Rifles in 1900 as a lieutenant at the age of 18, he served in South Africa during the Boer War. After serving his full tour with the 5th VMR he went on to serve in the Royal Fusiliers in 1902.
Having then been seconded to the West African Frontier Force in Nigeria 1904-09, and been advanced to Major, Gubbins was embarked for France in June 1915, where he commanded the 9th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers from August of that year until May 1916.It was during this period that he won his D.S.O. for the Battalion’s attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt (a.k.a. The Chord) on 2 March. On that occasion, the attack was launched at 5.45 p.m. with the detonation of seven mines, the largest of which was intended to wreck the bulk of The Chord. Certainly the earth thrown up by the mines partly covered the enemy’s wire, thereby allowing Gubbins’s men - and the neighbouring 8th Battalion - to gain access to the enemy’s defences, but not without significant loss. As stated in The Royal Fusiliers in the Great War, the 9th Battalion ‘found many Germans in their sector of The Chord who, though dazed, did not surrender and had to be killed. There followed a number of fierce grenade fights, the Germans rushing down from the north end of The Chord and along the trenches leading from the east into it ... but the craters were held against enemy bombing attacks during the night.’
D.S.O. London Gazette 15 April 1916:
‘This officer commanded his Battalion in an attack, the success of which was due to the excellent organisation he had established in his Battalion, and to the fighting spirit he had fostered in it.’
O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.
“For valuable service rendered in connection with Military Operations in Egypt”
Gubbins, who was also mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 15 June 1916, refers), later served in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force as Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, services that resulted in his award of the O.B.E. After a long adventure away from Australia, Gubbins finally returned in 1938 with his wife. He died in 1940.
Mounted as worn, minor enamel damage to wreaths on the first, otherwise good very fine SOLD
$15
Magars Boys, A biographical history of the 8th Light Horse By C. Simpson.
$150
