Lockdales Auction 168 14-15 September 2019

15 386 Cloth Trade Badges: British Army embroidered felt post- war trade badge selection all in excellent condition. (approx 55+). £25 - £35 387 Coldstream Guards Red Tunic, Trousers and Busby. Mixed lot for display purposes. Trousers dated 1966, tunic dated 1993 Kashket & Partners Ltd. Busby by A Grantham Ltd. (3) £150 - £200 388 Collection of framed replica full sized Gallantry Medals, cloth badges, and a frame of original WW2 Stars. Sold as Seen (Buyer collects) £70 - £75 389 Collection of large WW2 army photos taken in India (approx 14) £50 - £60 390 Collection of various miniature medals including Queens Gallantry medal. (Qty) £35 - £40 391 Collectors Cabinet with cased medal, old daggers, goggles, etc. (Buyer collects) £40 - £50 392 Commercially manufactured frames as follows: 1) A velvet fitted frame for a WW1 Trio and Plaque with rear stand. All marked fitting present. Lacks an outer glazed frame. In good condition. 2) A velvet fitted frame for a medal with metal fitments and rear stand. Lacks an outer glazed frame. (2) £40 - £45 393 Cornwall 32nd Regiment of Infantry an Officers cross belt plate £260 - £280 394 Coronation Medal 1902 Metropolitan Police named to PC J Sergeant J.Div. (Bethnal Green). £25 - £30 395 CSM QE2 with Northern Ireland clasp to 24179955 Spr D Roberts RE. £30 - £35 396 D' Day Operations Casualty group to the Harwich Ship the S.S. Amsterdam mined off the Normandy Beachhead 7th August 1944. Medals: 1939-1945 Star, Atlantic Star with bar France & Germany, 1939-45 War Medal, in original box with Mercantile Marine address on back and addressed to Mrs L.B. Stokes, 4 Bellman's Cottages, Fronks Rd, Dovercourt, (Harwich) Essex. Casualty slip from the General Register and Record Office of Shipping & Seaman, Cardiff. Notifying the death of Ernest Cornelius Stokes aged 45. Donkeyman Merchant Navy died on 7.8.1944. With Stokes Continuous Certificate of Discharge detailing all his voyages on SS Amsterdam from 1st January 1941. There are a number of interesting official papers confirming Stokes was killed on the Amsterdam. There is also a fascinating account from the BBC WW2 People's War from Patrick Manning a boy deck hand giving a vivid account of the Amsterdam's role in the D Day operations and its sinking. The Amsterdam carried the U.S. Rangers scaling the cliffs at the Point du Hoc. The ship was then refitted as a hospital ship. He describes the sinking in graphic detail including the sight of two nurses stuck in the portholes as the ship went down. (remembered in the recent D Day commemorations). An outstanding D Day Ops Casualty group with ephemera. EF £200 - £250 397 D Day Beach troops style Brodie tin helmet, white band with Beach troop badge painted to front, 1939 dated shell £150 - £180 398: DCM Group for the last stand of the 16th H.L.I at Frankfurt Trench, Battle of the Ancre, November 18th to 26th 1916. It is one of 11 DCM's personally recommended by General Sir Hubert Gough GOC 5th Army under AO193 of 1919. DCM officially impressed 43183 Pte. I. Fraser High: L.I. BWM & Victory (43183 Pte I W Fraser High L.I. DCM 'For Conspicuous Gallantry and Devotion to duty in the defence of the position known as Frankfurt Trench November 18th to 26th 1916. Battle of the Ancre'. This gallant last stand at Frankfurt Trench near Beaumont Hamel is arguably one of the most gallant and courageous actions of the whole of the First War. In the last action of the Somme battles in 1916. 'D' Company of the 16th Bn. Highland Light Infantry broke through the German lines and found themselves in Frankurt Trench. However, unbeknown to the Germans and British, when the battle subsided and the British were forced to retreat. This band of men, numbering approximately 100, which now included elements of the 11th Bn Border R found themselves completely cut off with neither Germans or British realising they were still positioned in and beyond the German lines. In the face of overwhelming German forces, and despite a number of failed rescue attempts and an offer by the Germans to surrender and get good treatment, which was refused. These men held out for 8 days in total under the most appalling conditions. During this time the Germans repeatedly attacked and bombarded the position killing and wounding a significant number of the defenders. Ultimately, what remained of the gallant defenders were completely overwhelmed on the 25th November with an attack, which came from all points of the compass. Eventually when the story of this action became known, General Sir Hubert Gough. GOC 5th Army was so impressed he personally sponsored the recommendation for awards to be granted under the Terms of AO 193. Interestingly the most accurate account that appears, is in the regimental history and was written by 27274 Pte Robert Manson who was awarded the DCM. His brother 27270 Pte James Manson who was also in the action and survived was awarded the MM. This is probably the only instance of two brothers gaining both a DCM and MM under AO193, for the same event. The 16th Bn. Highland Light Infantry - Battle of The Ancre: Frankfurt Trench: November 18th-25th, 1916. In total, one DSO, two MCs, 11x DCMs, 22x MMs and two Posthumous MIDs (downgraded VC recommendations) were made. We have been unable to find any other single action for the whole of the First War that resulted in so many awards being made to the participants who were captured. We believe that everybody who survived from the 16th HLI trapped in Frankfurt Trench was decorated. Sold with additional research including the account from the Regimental History of the 16th HLI and the latest DCM MM research from the Bate/Williamson DCM for one of the greatest last stands of the Great War (see also 'Epic Action of The Great War by R.W. Gould P133 onwards). Sold with research and copy photo of 16/HLI in 1915. (3) £2000 - £2500