Single: British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97. Rhodesia 1896 reverse, one clasp "MASHONLAND 1897" correct period engraving to 4013 PTE C. DUNFORD 7TH HUSS
confirmed on roll
Contact marks obverse, otherwise near VF SOLD
Single: Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866. Correct impressed naming to PTE. E. De VILLERS, 17th BATTALION
VF+ SOLD
Single: Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland, Gnr. H. P. Crosby. P.A.O.C.V. Arty.
Approximately 40 single-clasp medals for Bechuanaland issued to Prince Alfred’s Own Cape Volunteer Artillery.
VF $685
Single: Cape of Good Hope General Service Medal 1880-97 one clasp "TRANSKEI" correct period engraving to TPR J. H. SMITH BAKERS HSE.
confirmed on roll
Note: Only 556 medals with "TRANSKEI" issued
EF SOLD
Single: CHINA 1900 no clasp. Impressed to F. Pritchard, Ord., H.M.S. Pique.
GD VF SOLD
Single: Crimea 1854-56, 1 loose clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed
Note: With French Imperial award document for the British Crimea Medal with clasp Sebastopol, awarded to Fusilier Jean Gueyrouil (?), 47th Regiment dated 1 December 1856. Document creased and repaired.
Good very fine SOLD
Single: Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Alma, Sebastopol J. Salter. 30th. Regt. officially impressed naming.
Joseph Salter served in the Crimea with the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot and is confirmed upon the roll as having died on 26 September 1854.
Gd VF $875
Single: Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, "Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann and Sebastopol" contemporary engraving to CORPL. R. GRACIE SCOTS FUSR GDS
Good VF SOLD
Single: Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Private Patk. Finlay 46th. Foot) Hunt & Roskell engraved naming, minor edge nicks, good very fine and a scarce 4-clasp award to the 46th Foot,
Only a detachment of the Regiment, 6 Officers and 225 men, made up of Sir George Cathcart’s Honour Guard and two companies of the Advance Party, were present at the Battle of the Alma on 20 September 1854, and the subsequent actions at Balaklava and Inkermann.
Gd VF $1550
SINGLE: Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol C. Mintram. Scts. Fusilr. Gds. officially impressed naming,
A superb example of a “Sandbag Barrier” defender.
Gd VF $2850
Single: Crimea Medal four clasps "Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol" impressed naming to C. HATTER. GRENADIER GDS.
WIA wounded at Alma 20th September 1854
WIA (second occasion) severely wounded at Inkerman 5th November 1854
Died from his wounds 20th November 1854
A great double wounding medal to a true fighting soldier who succumbed to his wounds only weeks after the famous "Sandbag action".
VF SOLD
Single: Crimea medal one clasp "Alma". Officially Impressed to J. YOUNG 55th REGT. On the roll as wounded in Alma and subsequently died at Scutari in 1854.
Comes with a letter home of 4 pages of stop start writing, almost like a diary where he describes the arrival of the wounded from the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scutari. Also included is an official disbursement of his assets, An official letter regarding the medal plus an Official envelope addressed to his Sister in Easey Street Collingwood Melbourne Australia.
A choice Crimea to a casualty with extremely rare Ephemera and a bonus Australian connection.
Small EK at 6 o'clock otherwise EF SOLD
Single: Crimea medal to Private Squire Baldwin, 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, who was killed in action at the battle of Inkermann
Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (S. Baldwin. Grenadier Gds.) officially impressed naming, minor edge bruising.
Squire Baldwin served as a Private in the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, and was killed in action at the battle of Inkermann on 5 November 1854.
The Soldiers Battle as it has become known is probably the most outstanding actions of the Crimea and a Grenadier casualty tops the list in desirability.
Gd VF $ 4250
Single: CSM (QE11) One Clasp; "NORTHERN IRELAND" 23994474 BDR. J. A. WARNER R. A.
Near EF SOLD
Single: CSM clasp; "South Arabia" correctly impressed to 23959252 RFN. D. A. McI. BOGAN. CAMERONIANS.
Note. This was the Cameronians last campaign before disbanding. The Cameronians chose to disband rather than amalgamate with another regiment in the Lowland Brigade.
GD VF SOLD
Single: CSM two Clasps; "South Arabia, Radfan" correctly impressed to 23866608 TPR. W. J. DAVIES . 16/5 L.
GD VF SOLD
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
Single: East and Central Africa medal 1889, one clasp: "1898". correct engraved capitals to 1798 PTE. MIZA ALI., 27/BOM: INF:
Scarce medal
GD VF SOLD
Single: Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 2 clasps, Suakin 1884, El-Teb_Tamaai (3035. Pte. F. Carter. 19th H...sars.)
Pitting polished out good fine $625
Single: Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (2496. Pte. Sterry. 19th Husrs.)
Pitting, nearly very fine $525
Single: Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 correct period naming to 2580. Pte. T. Pritchard. 19th Husrs.
Contact marks, nearly very fine $485
Single: Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 correctly named to 5320 Pte. W. L. Galliers, M.S. Corps.
Note: Ex American Numismatic Society Collection, Morton & Eden, 25/26 October 2006
Extremely fine SOLD
Single: Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 correctly named to J. TERRY A.B. H.M.S. TOURMALINE
Note: 60634 Petty Officer First Class Joseph Terry, born Brixham, Devon, September 1854; joined the Royal Navy as Boy second Class, January 1871; advanced Ordinary Seaman, December 1877; transferred to H.M.S. Tourmaline, September 1880; H.M.S Duke of Wellington , September 1882; H.M.S. Excellent, February 1883; H.M.S. Condon, December 1883; promoted Petty Officer Second Class, July 1887; transferred to H.M.S. Excellent , September 1887; promoted Petty Officer First Class, June 1888; shore pensioned, January 1893.
Ex Spink April 2016 sale
Pitting from star, minor edge bruise nearly very fine $425
Single: Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, The Nile 1884-85 (2499. Pte. W. Smith. 19th Husrs.)
Contact marks, therefore nearly very fine $575
