Members' wants

The following wanted adverts are posted by members of the OMRS and mirrors their advert displayed in the OMRS Journal. If on reading the adverts you think you may be able to help in any way then just click on Respond to Advertiser  below the relevant advert and you will be able to send them an email direct. If you wish to place an advert then please visit the shop and select Members Wants and fill in the required form.

Ref. number:
4858

A member wishes to purchase Royal Observer Corps long service medals in singles or in groups. Also wishes to communicate with fellow ROC medal collectors. 

Ref. number:
7779

A member seeks to locate and/or to purchase the following medals – MGS, clasp Chrysler’s Farm and the Army of India, clasp Ava to Sgt Marmaduke Kearns, 41St Foot. 

Ref. number:
5143

A member is seeking to locate/purchase the following medals: County Borough of Bolton Police Good Service Medal in silver awarded by The Watch Committee to Inspector Thomas Gresty on 25 Jan 1922 to re-unite with his IGS NE Frontier Medal 1891.

Ref. number:
1119

A member is seeking to locate/purchase the following medals: 32424 Gunner Richard Adamson, 6/1 S. Scottish Div IGSM 1854, Hazara 1888 & Hazara 1891; K 24872 Ch. Sto. Bertie Appleton, RN 1914-15 Star, trio & Navy LSGC; Bdr. James Bennett, 3 Troop, Bombay Horse Artillery Punjab Medal Mooltan, Goojerat; 4719 Rfn Rowland John Burberry, 2 KRRC Khedives Medal Khartoum, QSA Belfast, Defence of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, KSA 2 bars and 79175 Pte/RSM Rowland John Burberry, 31 CEF 1914/5 trio, 4112 Gnr William Collar, 1/2 Bengal Horse Artillery Punjab Chilianwala, Mooltan; 46855 Gnr/Sgt. Charles Boylan, 12 Bty RFA, 27 Bde, RFA and C/59 Bde RFA 1914, BWM, Delhi Durbar 1911; 1406 Sgt, Robert Phillip Constable, P Bty RHA 1914 Lt to Capt QSA Paar, Drief, Dia Hill, Witt, Rel of Kim, KSA 2 cls. 1914/5 trio; Sgt John Jowit, 3/2 Bengal Horse Artillery Sutlej Medal and Punjab Medal.

Ref. number:
8285

A member is seeking a Group of 3 medals to Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Herbert Goldthorpe, 3rd Punjab Cavalry, later commanded the 1st/4th Battalion (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles), Royal Scots at the Second Battle of Gaza during the Great War, and saw further service with the Welsh Horse
2 IGS noted as follows:- India General Service, 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Lieut. F. H. Goldthorpe 3rd. Punjab Cavy.), engraved in a running script; India General Service, 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (Lieut. F. H. Goldthorp) and China, 1900, single clasp, Relief of Pekin (Captn. F. H. Goldthorpe 3d. Pjb Cavy), engraved in a running script, correction to regiment. The three medals had been sold as a group at one point. 

 

 

Ref. number:
6048

A member is seeking medals, plaques - singles or groups, or any ephemera named to DUGGAN, DUGAN and close variations, and anything to men who herald from Sutton Coldfield, Minworth, Warwickshire - now West Midlands. 

Ref. number:
7998

A member is seeking genuine original issue ribbon for the following Metropolitan Police medals:
-1887/1897 Police Jubilee Medal;
-1902 Coronation Police Medal;
-1911 Coronation Police Medal. 
Need enough of each to swing mount on a standard medal bar- longer lengths preferred! Will pay a reasonable amount, + postage etc.

 

Ref. number:
8440

A member is seeking medals to recipients from the Orkney Islands, Scotland. Other main interests include Seaforth Highlanders, Cameron Highlanders, Lovat Scouts and recipients from the villages of Cawdor & Croy near Inverness.

Ref. number:
8121

A member is seeking to purchase any QSA or KSA to the Driscoll Scouts. I am particularly looking for the following men who served with the Driscoll Scouts: 752 Trp H Clements. 243 Serjt H Lloyd. 430 Trp J Moriarty. 200 Trp W Clarke. 345 F. Serjt J M Dunn. 789 Trp C M Kingwill. 936 Trp H Ritchie. Lieut E P Prestwich. 26419 Trp J Allander. QSA to 532 Private E Moss Queenstown Rifle Volunteers. QSA to Trooper C Castleman Prince Alfred's Vol Guards and KSA to 952 Trp C Castleman Driscoll Scouts.

Ref. number:
2176

A member would like to locate his great grandfather’s medals: South Africa 1877–9, Egypt 1882, both no clasp, to Corporal 1854 William Gibbs, Army Service Corps. 

Ref. number:
5131

A member would like to locate and/or purchase the Queen's South Africa Medal with Belmont, Wittebergen and Transvaal clasps and King's South Africa Medal, 2 clasps, awarded to Major Bryce Stewart, Royal Munster Fusiliers. 

Ref. number:
4208

A member is seeking Great War ODMs/memorial plaques etc. to members of the Canadian Postal Corps and Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) nursing sisters; Great War ODMs to the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. 

Ref. number:
4901

A member is seeking to locate/purchase medals named to TUCKER: Any 19th Century (including Boer War); Post-1900, any Naval forces, including Marines; All fatal casualties, including memorial plaques; All long service; and family groups. 

Ref. number:
7045

A member is kindly seeking to locate/purchase: China 1842, Lieut. H. G. Morris, H.M.S Harlequin; w/ contemporary riband buckle sold at Spink, Wed, 25 November 1998, Lot number 1763, p 35. Most appreciated

Ref. number:
7933

A member is looking for the following family medal : a QSA to 2270 Trooper H.E.Gould South African Constabulary and a WW1 Trio to 20084 Pte H.Hebditch West Yorkshire Regiment  

Ref. number:
3187

A member is looking for silver war badges. If you have any for sale or surplus to your collection please email me with details. All I need is the number(s) and the amount you want - a scan of the numbering would be nice . Always happy to exchange with other collectors.

Ref. number:
2022

A member is looking for THE JERUSALEM CROSS IN MINIATURE (Signvm Sacri Itineris Hierosol) wanted in Gold, Silver or Bronze, with or without ribbon.
This is a Vatican authorised medal for Pilgrims to the Holy Land but miniature versions of it are difficult to find. Any offers gratefully considered. 

 

Ref. number:
5131

A member is seeking to locate / purchase the Candahar, Ghuznee, Cabul Medal (Cabul 1842 reverse) awarded to Private Joseph Pick, 13th Foot.

Ref. number:
8418

A member is looking for any Lifesaving medals of the Order of St. John and medals from the Order of Malta and Red Cross. Many thanks.. 

Ref. number:
5131

A member is seeking to locate / purchase the Naval General Service Medal 1793-1840 with Syria clasp to Midshipman Roderick Dew, HMS Hydra. 

Ref. number:
2502

A member is seeking a copy of the image of Lieutenant-General Sir Joseph Ca(i)ncross KCB and Army Gold Cross with two bars. In 1911 the KCB star was sold by Glendinings with a “fine portrait miniature”. This for family research purposes

Ref. number:
6077

A member is seeking to locate/purchase the following: WWII DSO, OBE, DFC medal group to 40343 Wg Cdr D.J. PENMAN; WWII DFMs to 755147 Roy NIVEN and 956072 Kenneth LEACH; GVI RAF LSGC to 341648 Sgt S.A.E. KING, RAF; WW1 officer Memorial Plaques to John BELL-HUGHES, Eric Lea Priestly EDWARDS, William Armine EDWARDS, Thomas Wardlaw HORNE, Thomas Edwards LAWSON-SMITH, Walter Frederick PARRISS and Christian Franklyn Hales RUMBOLD; BWM to Capt F.C.W. Wynter; 1914-15 Star to 2LT L.H. St G. Farrer.

Ref. number:
6093

A member would appreciate offers of any Bedfordshire Yeomanry items from 1900 to 1939 including medals to those who served in the Boer War with the 1st draft of the 28th company I.Y. (number range 14891 to 15003). Anything considered including groups/broken items/singles/silver war badges and plaques. Long service and gallantry especially sought. Also seeking WW1 medals to members of the Tingey family from Shefford, Beds.

Ref. number:
7933

A member is looking for the following family medals: Queen’s Sudan Medal to 4263 Pte G.W. Shoebottom, Royal Warwickshire Regt; QSA to 4263 Sgt G.W. Shoebottom, Royal Warwickshire Regt; WW1 trio to 2418 Sgt G.W. Shoebottom, Royal Warwickshire Regt; WWI trio to TC500 Trimmer W.A. Shoebottom, RN Reserve; WWI trio to 7/36349 Dvr A. Shoebottom, RASC; Egypt Medal 1882 to 1697 Cpl V.T. Hebditch, 2nd Yorks and Lancs Regt; WWI pair to 19064 Pte A. Hebditch, Yorks and Lancs Regt; WW1 trio to 785798 Dvr F. Hebditch, RFA; WWI trio to 3197 Pte A. Hebditch, 15th Battalion West Yorkshire Regt; QSA to 32342 Tpr J.R. Hebditch, 3rd Battalion Imperial Yeomanry.
 

Ref. number:
8332

A member is seeking to locate/purchase the following family group of medals. New Zealand Medal to En M. Wynyard, 50th Regt; Egypt Medal 1882 (no clasp) to Capt M. Wynyard, 1st R.W. Kent Regt; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882. This group to Lt Col Montagu Wynyard passed from the family in 1973, to the Royal West Kent Regt collection of Sqn Ldr John Etkins, it was subsequently in the Glendining sale of his collection as Lot 48 on 17 Sept 1986.
 

Ref. number:
5585

A member seeks WWI medals and Memorial Plaques to the Welsh Guards; WWI medals etc to men from the St Clears, Llanddowror, Banc y Felin, Meidrim, Whitland and Narberth areas of SW Wales; 1914 Star trio to Pte 8001 B. WILLIAMS, 2nd Welsh Regiment.