G1199
Pair BWM , Victory Medal Cpl E Jones S.B.ST.J R.A.M.C
Pair BWM , Victory Medal 100182 Cpl E Jones S.B.ST.J R.A.M.C St Johns Ambulance Brigade long service medal, Six bars 4423 Stockport Div No 4 SJAB 1925
£140
G1188
A scarce M.G.S. and Army of India pair awarded to Colonel W. G. A. Fielding.

A scarce M.G.S. and Army of India pair awarded to Colonel W. G. A. Fielding, 8th Bengal Light Cavalry and Governor General’s Body Guard.

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Java (Lieut. W. G. A. Fielding, Govr. Genl’s Body Guard); Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (Major W. G. A. Fielding, 8th Lt. Cavy.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, extremely fine and very scarce (2) Ex Glendining July 1923 and Mackenzie Collection 1934.

William George Augustus Fielding was born in London in 1784,he was the son of Viscount Fielding (born 1760). Appointed Cornet in the 5th light Cavalry, April 1801, and served in Bundelkhand in 1803-04. He transferred as Lieutenant to the newly-raised 8th Light Cavalry in 1805, and was attached to the Governor General’s Body Guard, as Adjutant, from March 1806 until February 1812. During this period he served with the G.G.B.G. at the capture of Java, his meritorious services at Java being placed on record by the Governor General himself.

Fielding went on Furlough to England in 1812 and, being absent from India for more than 5 years, he was struck off but was immediately restored to the Service upon his return in March 1817, although he was compelled to do duty with Roberts’s Rohilla Horse until court permission was granted for him to rejoin his regiment. He took part in the Third Mahratta war as Captain in the 8th Light Cavalry, including the action at Jubbulpore, and shared the Deccan Prize Money for General Captures at Scindhia’s Court in 1819. He commanded the Irregular Horse of Scindhia’s Contingent, 1820-23, and was appointed 1st Assistant to the Resident at Gwalior from August 1825 until September 1830, during part of which period he officiated as Resident, and was Superintendent of Dowlut Rao Scindhia’s Contingent from August 1825.

As a Major with the 8th Light Cavalry, he took part in the siege and capture of Bhurtpore, and was brought to notice for ‘his zeal and gallantry in an affair with the enemy at Bhurtpore on 18th January 1826’. Fielding became Lieutenant-Colonel of the 8th Light Cavalry in September 1829, and was appointed Resident at Katmandu, Nepal, in November 1830. He retired in April 1833, was appointed Honorary Colonel in November 1854 and died in 1868.

Included in the sale a photograph of his grave and various research papers.

£5300
G1174
Pair of Medals to Lieutenant T.H.Blair

Pair 1849 Punjab Medal 2 Clasps Goojerat, Mooltan Ensign T.H.Blair 19th Regt N.I..

1858 .Indian Mutiny medal Central India clasp to: Lieut T.H.Blair 19th Bombay N.I..

£1800
G1187
Pair Q.S.A. 2497 Pte S.Gee 2nd Royal Fusiliers
Pair Q.S.A. 3 clasps C C; Orange free State;Transvaal, & KSA SA01; SA02 to 2497 Pte S.Gee 2nd Royal Fusiliers, Attached No 15 armoured train - In the action at Daspoort 5th May 1902 injured, one of the last casualties of the Boer War- and the very last in the Armoured Trains. Verified, 5 pages of service records. Enlisted 11th March 1886 age 18y 10m. etc Medals also mint EF plus, a nice group, in presentation case with badge.
£230
G1000
Group 3 to Staff Sergent J.Wells, 4th Dragoon Guards, Charge of the Heavy brigade
Permanent Staff Sergeant J. Wells, South Nottinghamshire Yeomanry, late 1st Dragoon Guards and Troop Sergeant-Major, 4th Dragoon Guards, who was twice wounded in the charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava. Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Serjt., 4th R.I. Dragoon Guards), contemporary engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1204 T.S. Major, 4th Dragoon Guards), officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (Serjt. Major, 4 Dn. Gds.), regimentally impressed naming, mounted as worn from a contemporary wearing bar, the first with refixed suspension claw, contact marks, edge bruising and polished, good fine and better (3) John Wells was born in the parish of Witton, near Birmingham and originally enlisted in the 1st Dragoon Guards in March 1848, aged 19 years. A tall man for the age, standing at 6ft., he transferred to the 4th Dragoon Guards in March 1854 and was advanced to Corporal before serving with the regiment out in the Crimea. Present in the famous charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava, where, according to his discharge papers, ‘he was wounded in the bridle hand by a sabre cut’, and, according to an accompanying obituary notice, ‘slightly in the face’, Wells was duly advanced to Sergeant in February 1855. Back home, he gained further promotion to Troop Sergeant-Major in March 1858 and was re-engaged for a further 12 years with the Colours at Brighton in March 1860. He was, however, reduced to Sergeant in March 1870, and, two months later, discharged as unfit for further service. But on the following day he was appointed a Permanent Staff Sergeant in the South Nottinghamshire Yeomanry and served in that capacity until he was finally discharged in June 1886. The gallant Wells died at Nottingham in December 1908, aged 74 years, and was buried locally - his grave can still be seen in the Waverley Street Cemetery, Nottingham. Sold with an old photographic copy of a portrait and illuminated address presented to the recipient on his retirement from the South Nottinghamshire Yeomanry, together with an original copy of a Crimean and Indian Mutiny Veterans’ Association printed obituary for him - ‘The deceased is the last veteran belonging to the 4th Royal Irish Dragoons residing in Nottinghamshire who fought in the Crimea, and another link is severed from the chain of that historic campaign ...’
£6,800
G1267
A 1914 Great War 'Western Front' C.B. Group of Seven to Brigadier-General H.G. Sandilands, Royal Artillery.

A 1914 Great War 'Western Front' C.B. Group of Seven to Brigadier-General H.G. Sandilands, Royal Artillery, Commanded 34th Brigade Royal Field Artillery 1914-17

a) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion's (C.B.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamels, in Garrard & Co, London case of issue.

b) India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., one clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Captn. H.G. Sandilands 50th Fd. By. R.A.), small edge bruise.

c) Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Laing's Nek (Major. H.G. Sandilands. R.F.A.), contact marks to obverse.

d) 1914 Star, with Bar (Lt: Col: H.G. Sandilands. R.F.A.)

e) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Brig. Gen. H.G. Sandilands.)

f) Coronation 1911, clasp carriages adapted for court mounted wear, very fine or better (7)

C.B. London Gazette 18.2.1915 Lieutenant-Colonel H.G. Sandilands (34th Brigade).

Brigadier-General Henry George Sandilands, C.B., born 1864; Lieutenant Royal Artillery, 1884; Captain 1893; Acting Adjutant, Peshawar District, 23.8.1897-30.9.1897; Major 1900; served as Adjutant 2nd Brigade Division Royal Field Artillery in South Africa (Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 8.2.1901); Lieutenant-Colonel 1910; Colonel 1913; Officer Commanding 34th Brigade Royal Field Artillery 1914-17, and served on the Western Front from, 17.8.1914; Brigadier-General Staff, 3rd Division 25.2.1915-18.2.1916; 54th Division 3.11.1916; served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, November 1916-December 1917 (C.B.; M.I.D. London Gazette 19.10.1914; 17.2.1915; 1.1.1916 and 12.1.1918); retired Brigadier-General 1919.

£3400
G1236
An Historically important Crimea War pair awarded to Honorary Major F. Fernandez, Army Hospital Corps,

The Crimea War pair awarded to Honorary Major F. Fernandez, Army Hospital Corps, who served as an Apothecary with charge of the Army’s Medical Stores at Balaklava - and found Florence Nightingale ‘very, very difficult to work with’ (accompanying letter from his grand-daughter refers) .

Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Mr. F. Fernandez, Apothecary to the Forces), contemporary engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, Hunt and Roskill issue (Mr. F. Fernandez, Apothecary to the Forces), contemporary engraved naming .

Sold with a fine pair of portrait miniatures, one depicting the recipient in scarlet tunic and wearing his British Crimea medal, and the other his wife, oils on ivory, approximately 4in. by 5 in and mounted together in a folding embroidered travel case of Chinese manufacture, circa 1860;together with a large “dressing bowl” approximately 16” .diameter by 4” high, reputedly as used by Florence Nightingale in the Crimea; and an original and informative letter from his grand-daughter, dated 14th December 1970.

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Other items enclosed with the collection:

Airmail letter from Wallis & Wallis, dated 29th July 1970 with conformation of the purchase of Lot No 282 A from Sale 168 of the FRANCISCO FERNANDEZ collection.

Letter and notes from Jean Harding 22 Fernwood Avenue, Streatham, S.W.16 Sent to Donald Penhall, Canada, from Mrs E. Harding whose Grandfather was FRANCISCO FERNANDEZ.

Letter from Major General A. MacLennan, O.B.E. (Retd) R.A.M.C Historical Museum. Aldershot dated 3rd November 1970. With information concerning his career.

Various notes concerning promotions, Commission of Enquiry, see http://www.crimeantexts.org.uk/sources/reports/mntev028.html etc the collection had been on display in Canada photograph enclosed, and was at one time part of the Ron Penhall collection.

Born in Zeres, Spain, September 1828. His father was a prominent sherry exporter and sent Francisco,at the age of 11, to England for schooling, initially finding employment at Squires of Bond Street, the Queen’s Apothecary.In September 1854, however ,he was appointed a Dispenser of Medicine to the British Army, in which capacity he served in the Crimea until February 1855, when he was appointed Apothecary, and where he had charge of the medical stores at Balaklava.

Fernandez was next posted to Canada, but returned to active service in 1857-60 when he was employed as an Apothecary in the Second China War. Latterly appointed a Captain of Orderlies in the Army Hospital Corps in June 1873, he served in that capacity for several years at Portsmouth, prior to his retirement in September 1886 as an Hon.Major. He died at Folkestone in November 1911.

£2800