Pighills Posted 13 November , 2010 Share Posted 13 November , 2010 In today's Yorkshire Evening Post: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Marshall Posted 13 November , 2010 Share Posted 13 November , 2010 One to keep our eyes on. Thanks for the post, Kim. A link to the same story Cheers, Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
14history18 Posted 16 November , 2010 Share Posted 16 November , 2010 (edited) I bet Lord Ashcroft buys it, he can certainly afford it with the money he saves from not paying UK taxes, he already has in excess of 120 VC's. Regards, Dave Edited 18 November , 2010 by Les Turner Over use of quotes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIRKY Posted 16 November , 2010 Share Posted 16 November , 2010 What a great helmet! Do we know how he died? Was it a head wound? Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 16 November , 2010 Share Posted 16 November , 2010 I bet Lord Ashcroft buys it, he can certainly afford it with the money he saves from not paying UK taxes, he already has in excess of 120 VC's. Regards, Dave Just imagine: if he paid more UK tax, we wouldn't have the Ashcroft Gallery at the IWM displaying all these medals for us to see. Maybe his tax status is a Good Thing after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KevinEndon Posted 16 November , 2010 Share Posted 16 November , 2010 maybe if he paid his taxes the money could have bought them for the nation and not 1 mans collection. I bet there would be hell to pay if Ronnie Biggs used his stolen millions to buy the V.C.'s Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw Posted 16 November , 2010 Share Posted 16 November , 2010 Perhaps Wayne will choose to invest a week's money buying it - same as we do for an MM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonlives Posted 17 November , 2010 Share Posted 17 November , 2010 There are another three VCs up for sale in the same auction. Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Marshall Posted 17 November , 2010 Share Posted 17 November , 2010 So there are............. Including that to L/Sjt Neely which forum members will be familiar with. Link to Catalogues at Spink Cheers, Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harkerr@btinternet.com Posted 25 November , 2010 Share Posted 25 November , 2010 According to BBC Look North tonight it made £210,000. No mention of who the buyer might be though! Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadog Posted 25 November , 2010 Share Posted 25 November , 2010 From the D Mail website: Donald Bell VC Yesterday it was bought in London for £252,000, the third highest auction price for a VC, by the Professional Footballers’ Association. The guide price was £140,000-£160,000. Newspaper article Norman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pighills Posted 26 November , 2010 Author Share Posted 26 November , 2010 I'm pleased at where it ended up - he's a bit special to me as you can imagine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Marshall Posted 26 November , 2010 Share Posted 26 November , 2010 Perhaps Wayne will choose to invest a week's money buying it - same as we do for an MM. Perhaps he did! I assume the £40,000 margin between the two prices quoted is without and with the buyer's premium and charges? Still, however you look at it, it is a strong price for any VC group. It is now in an appropriate place though. The article in the newspaper linked to by Norman is a shocker though. A few points could be jumped all over for their inaccuracy, but I have to stay mindful that this is the Mail and I'd be surprised if I could believe in anything that appears in it's pages! Cheers, Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Strawbridge Posted 26 November , 2010 Share Posted 26 November , 2010 From the D Mail website: Donald Bell VC Yesterday it was bought in London for £252,000, the third highest auction price for a VC, by the Professional Footballers’ Association. The guide price was £140,000-£160,000. Newspaper article Norman I am pleased that the PFA bought it but just wonder where, if anywhere, it will be displayed. I would have no objection, whatsoever, for it to be added to those on display with the Ashcroft ones but plainly showing that it is on loan from the PFA. It just may be that "a deal" was done with Ashcroft backing off from bidding on it to do just this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Underdown Posted 26 November , 2010 Share Posted 26 November , 2010 The Mail article says the PFA museum in Manchester, and even they couldn't get that wrong - could they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadog Posted 26 November , 2010 Share Posted 26 November , 2010 Any idea to who these further three VCs were awarded: From the DM article Three other VCs sold yesterday, for £132,000, £156,000 and £216,000 The third one reached a very large sum indeed. Norman Edited to add: Interesting comment on the DM story: "My grandfather Christopher George Carter was shot through the knee while fighting alongside Bell when the 9th Battallion Yorkshire Regiment captured Contalmaison a few days after Donald Simpson Bell earned his V.C while capturing Horseshoe trench. Although Grandfather endured 19 operation on what was left of his leg, which was amputated. He died 10 years later from a heart attack. No doubt as a result of all the operations and trauma. His widow, my grandmother didn`t get his pension, the government saying it was too long after the event and the reason he died was not the reason he was getting a pension. There were many heroes during WW1, odd ones like Donald Bell were recognised but there were a lot equally as brave that were as quickly forgotton about". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Marshall Posted 26 November , 2010 Share Posted 26 November , 2010 Any idea to who these further three VCs were awarded: http://www.spink.com/auctions/pdf/1008.pdf Follow the link, Norman. The three others are listed. L/Sjt Neely was one of them. Cheers, Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadog Posted 26 November , 2010 Share Posted 26 November , 2010 Thanks Nigel, that is a heck of a good read!. Regards Norman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 26 November , 2010 Share Posted 26 November , 2010 http://www.spink.com...ns/pdf/1008.pdf Follow the link, Norman. The three others are listed. L/Sjt Neely was one of them. Cheers,Nigel Blimey!! They misspelled his name on the VC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daggers Posted 26 November , 2010 Share Posted 26 November , 2010 L/Sgt Neely's medals were the subject of a thread earlier this year. D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnhem44 Posted 26 November , 2010 Share Posted 26 November , 2010 That does make interesting reading,did Neely's family ever receive the War and Victory medal or were these medals just separated ? regards Brendan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 26 November , 2010 Share Posted 26 November , 2010 L/Sgt Neely's medals were the subject of a thread earlier this year. D Was that the rather strange thread by the chap who claimed to have had them stolen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom A McCluskey Posted 26 November , 2010 Share Posted 26 November , 2010 Reference the press release at post 1, 'the only professional footballer to win the top military honour'; I thought Willie Angus was also a professional footballer that was awarded the VC: http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/exhibitions/football/page3.shtml Aye, Tom McC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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