Three: Captain F. V. B. Kirwan, Army Service Corps, late Royal Fusiliers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Transvaal, Driefontein (Lieut., 2 Rl. Fus.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lieut., Rl. Fusrs.); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 1st issue, 1 clasp, Sudan 1912, unnamed, first with slight edge bruise, good very fine and better (3) £900-1100

Francis Vernon Brudenell Kirwan was born on 15 May 1877. He was commissioned from a Trooper in Kitchener’s Horse into the 95th Company, 24th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry (Metropolitan Mounted Rifles) on 22 May 1901 and then into 2nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers. Served in A.S.C. in the Sudan from 16 June 1910 as a Captain (Bimbashi) but died in England of enteric fever on 10 May 1912. Kirwan is listed on the Plantagenet roll of the blood royal.

One of 31 Khedive’s Sudan Medals with clasp for ‘Sudan 1912’ awarded to British officers. With copied gazette and roll extracts.