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[British Military/Victoria Cross] 22 signed items. Mostly signed cards, FDCs, etc. Mostly very good to near fine, a couple are mounted to a sheet of paper, a few have more wear. ++ Percival Marling. ++ Smokey Smith. Signed photograph. 4to. Slight fading. ++ Ali Haidar. ++ B. Speakman. ++ Lt.-Gen. Sir James Hills-Johnes. ALS, dated 22nd August 1900,” mounted to removed scrapbook leaf, with its original envelope. Won the VC for the Siege of Delhi. ++ Major General Sir Reginald Sartorius. ++ Gen. Charles Gough. ALS. 1 sentence. Apr. 24, 1900. Mounted to a removed scrap Gough fought in Abyssinia, the Afghan campaign, etc. Awarded a Victoria Cross, ca. 1881. Keeper of the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London beginning in 1898. ++ Lt.-Col. Dudley Johnson. ++ Edward Talbot Thackeray. ALS (1 sentence, dated “...SIdney/ Aug 1st 1900,” to a recipeint in Cape Town, Seymour C. J. Freeman Matthews Esq.). Thackeray earned the VC for his role in the battle of Delhi in the Sepoy Rebellion.++ William Montagu Tweeddale. ANS. ++ Gerald Ross Norton. ++ Adrian Carotn DeWairt. ++ Keith Elliot. ++ Pat Porteous. ++ Edward Kenna. ++ Geo S White. ++ John Cruickshank. ++ A. Roden Cutler. ++ Eric Wilson. ++ Bill Apiata. ++ Gen. O’Moore Creagh. ++ William Chase.
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