b'134902WAR DEPARTMENT 4lb weight with broad arrow stamp, mid 19th century,14cm high$120200 903BOER WAR - S.S. SALAMIS - SPORTS MEETING:Attractive hand-drawn and coloured souvenir poster, captioned Advance Australia/S.S. Salamis at top and Souvenir/South Africa at base, with a central listing of events and winners; framed & glazed, overall 74 x 51cm.$300400 9049th Australian LIGHT HORSE table vesta porcelain striker by MacINTYRE (Moorcroft), emblazoned with a kangaroo in wattle wreath,6cm high, 8cm wide$100200 905GALLIPOLI - WITH THE CAMERA AT ANZAC: group of 40 photographs (each 11.5x16cm) taken by three young Australian soldiers Henry James Lowe, Arthur James Cook & George Downs at Anzac Cove and surrounding areas in 1915. This is an almost complete representation of the 42 photographs included in an album of photographs registered for copyright in 1919, under the title With the Camera at Anzac, a copy of which is held in National Archives. In addition a panoramic postcard (8.5x41cm) showing North Beach photographed by Lowe & Downs is included (housed in an Australian War Contingent Association chocolate 901 tin). It is not known whether the National Archives hold a copy of this photograph. The photographs were previously MILITARY owned by Lance Corporal Ernest George Paine, who was wounded in action at Gallipoli in May 1915 (a copy AIF service record is included).901 $1,5002,500 SEAN JAMES GORDON VC: carte-de-visite for Seamus James Gordon V.C. taken by Charles Percy Pickering at George Street Studio, Brickfield Hill, Sydney c.1880. The906image shows a seated Gorman holding a walking stick,Major General Walter Adams Coxen CB, CMG, DSO (22 June wearing 4 medals including his Victoria Cross, his left leg187015 December 1949): A collection of postcards sent exhibiting pronounced attestation to the artificial leg concealedby Coxen to his daughter, 1915-19. The Coxen family lived in beneath. The item is accompanied by magnified image, plusSouth Yarra during the First World War. (170+)copious biographical notes by Harry Willey (author of 150In May 1915 Coxen was ordered to raise a brigade of siege Years of the Victoria Cross 1857-2007) artillery for service in Europe. The brigade was to consist of Sean James Gorman was born in Middlesex, England intwo batteries, with eight siege guns to be supplied by Britain 1834. He commenced naval service aboard HMS Victoryand 415 officers and other ranks, about half of whom would be in 1848, quickly progressing to become a instructor topermanent force artillery gunners. The brigade, which became apprentices on HMS Rolla, by 1852 he had been promotedknown as the 36th Heavy Artillery Group (36 HAG), departed to Able Seaman serving with the Naval Brigade in the CrimeaMelbourne on 17 July 1915 and landed in England on 25 under the Command of Captain Stephen Lushington. In theAugust. After a delay due to a short supply of heavy artillery Battle of Inkerman Gorman, along with four others, showedpieces, the 54th Siege Battery was equipped with 8 inch commendable bravery in defending wounded sailors underHowitzers and the 55th Siege Battery with 9.2 inch Howitzers. assault from a formidable Russian force, eventually forcingThe batteries moved to France on 26 February and 2 March the attackers into retreat. The following week Gorman further1916 respectively. The 36th Heavy Artillery Group began distinguished himself rescuing Captain Lushington whenoperations in support of the British XVII Corps in the Arras surrounded by enemy troops. Gorman was badly woundedsector before joining the British Fourth Army for the Battle of saving his Commander resulting in the amputation of his leftthe Somme. The Group then joined I Anzac Corps Artillery at leg in 1854. In 1857 the Victoria Cross was awarded to GormanPozires and took part in the Battle of Pozires in support of whilst serving in the second Opium War against China. Afterthe Australian infantry. For his services, Coxen was awarded leaving the Navy in 1860, Gorman emigrated to Australia inthe Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in the 1917 New Year 1863, settling in Sydney finding employment in 1867 as drillHonours.master and gunnery instructor on the Nautical School ShipOn 18 January 1917, Coxen replaced Brigadier General Talbot Vernon. In 1881 he transferred to the Ordinance DepartmentHobbs as commander of the 1st Division Artillery. On his as foreman of the magazine on Spectacle Island, the location ofappointment Coxen was promoted to brigadier general. He Australias first official Naval Stores Complex. He died in 1882served in that capacity through the German withdrawal to the at the age of 47 and is buried in Balmain Cemetery. Hindenburg Line, the Battle of Bullecourt and the Third Battle $300500 of Ypres. On 18 October 1917, Coxen took over as commander'