Three: Sergeant W. M. Jones, Army Pay Department, late Royal Artillery

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (444 Sgt. W. M. Jones. A.P.D.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (444 Sgt. W. M. Jones. A.P.O. [sic]); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum, unnamed as issued, nearly extremely fine (3) £280-£320

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd.

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Walter Mingay Jones was born at Woolwich, Kent, and attested there for the Royal Horse Artillery on 19 March 1883, aged 14 years 1 month, an engraver by trade. After 8 years 5 months service in the R.H.A. and now in the rank of an unpaid acting Bombardier, he transferred to the Army Pay Department and was appointed Probationary Military Staff Clerk with the rank of Corporal. He was promoted Sergeant in December 1894, and re-engaged for the Army Pay Corps at Hounslow in March 1895 to complete 21 years service. He served in Egypt from 1 July 1898 to 2 March 1904, and took part in the campaign in the Sudan in 1898. He was awarded the L.S. & G.C. medal with gratuity per Army Order 163c of 1901. He returned home from Egypt in March 1904 and was discharged on 4 April 1904. Sold with copied discharge papers which confirm all medals but not the clasp for Khartoum.