Lockdales Auction 170 16-17 November 2019

14 337 Crimea Medal with bars Alma/Inkermann/Sebastopol and a privately inscribed ribbon clasp 'B Baily Coventry Rgt Oct 10 1856 No3888'. Medal engraved (Pve Ja's Sawyors 55th Regt). With copy medal roll. £260 - £280 338 CSM GVI with Malaya clasp named to (10170 3rl P.C.Abd Rashid B Jaafar. F of M Pol). Killed 12/12/1949 anti-Communist duties Jelebu Negeri Sembilan. £400 - £450 339 Death Plaque in contemporary metal frame, to 16295 Pte William Barker Batey 7th Bn Yorkshire Regt. Killed In Action 1st July 1916 (1st Day of the Somme). Born Millfield. Buried Fricourt British Cemetery. (1) £80 - £85 340 Death Plaque to 13806 Pte James Laverick 10th Bn Yorkshire Regt. Killed In Action 1st July 1916 (1st Day of the Somme). On the Thiepval Memorial. Born Sunderland. and 1915 Star + Victory Medal to 2976 Pte J Laverick Durham L.I. (1+2) £80 - £85 341 Death Plaque to 25-773 L.Cpl John William Bresnen 25th Bn North'D Fus. Killed In Action 1st July 1916 (1st Day of the Somme). Born Sunderland. On the Thiepval Memorial. (1) £80 - £85 342 Death Plaque to 2.Lieut David Haig 4th/5th Bn Royal Highlanders. Died 5th July 1918. Buried St Sever Cemetery, France. With plaque folder and original addressed envelope, lived St Brycedale Rd, Kirkcaldy. Haig died as a result of a Motor Bus Accident. £200 - £250 343 Death Plaque to J.20352 Sidney Francis West O.S. RN, Died 31st May 1916 HMS Queen Mary. Lived Shirley, Southampton. On the Portsmouth Memorial. With plaque folder and Buckingham Palace slip £40 - £50 344 Death Plaque to Lieut Dennis Henry Stacey Gilbertson 70th Sqdn RAF (Camel Pilot). Killed In Action 4th Sept 1918. Born Hertford. Buried Villers-au-Tertre Communal Cemetery. Commissioned into the Northamptonshire Regt (severely Wounded 14/ 12/ 1915). An "Ace" credited with five kills 30/5/18, 27/6/18, 1/7/18, 1/7/18, and 4/9/18, shot down later that day. £600 - £650 345 Death Plaque to Major John Harold Slade-Powell 52nd Bty RFA, Died of Wounds 8/2/1915, buried Ipswich Cemetery. Son of the Rev John Powell of St Clements Rectory, Ipswich. £160 - £180 346 Death Plaques to brothers from Pakenham, near Bury St Edmunds. 3/8919 Pte Harry Balls 2nd Suffolks KIA 12/7/1916. Buried Carnoy Military Cemetery. And 41663 Pte Alfred Balls 7th Bn Norfolk Regt DOW 27/8/1918 buried Daours Communal Cemetery. (2) £110 - £120 347 Defence medal in box to a WW1 Officer Major J.C.Eales-White who did not serve overseas in WW1 so no medals, only a SWB entitlement, but was awarded an Order the League of Mercy 1935, resigned Commission 1931, served HG WW2 Died 1949, his brother Capt. H H Eales-White was KIA 27-9-1915, mounted as worn £25 - £30 348 Delhi Durbar Medal 1911 named (Lt Col G.R.Fox Delhi Durbar 1911). £70 - £75 349 Distinguished Conduct Medal GV unnamed as issued, awarded to foreign nationals. GVF £280 - £300 350 Distinguished Flying Cross, reverse officially dated 1942, housed in original Royal Mint case (hinges a/f). EF £800 - £850 351 Distinguished Service Cross (silver hallmarked 1917) reverse engraved 'J.S.M. 10th April 1918'. With original Garrad Case (this poor condition). There are four possibles - John Stanley Mills L/G 22/6/15, John Samuel Macey L/G 26/7/17, Joseph Stephen Meria L/G 17/11/17, and John Saville Metcalfe L/G 16/8/16. None of the dates match the medal so we assume it is the presentation date at Buckingham Palace making Meria the best guess. EF £500 - £550