Four: Private L. H. Boileau, Nigerian Land Contingent, who later served as Principal Assistant Secretary, Nigerian Government Secretariat

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Nigeria 1918 (Pte. L. H. Boileau. Nig. L. Ctgt.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Defence Medal, the first three mounted as worn, the Defence Medal loose, minor edge bruise to first, good very fine, the AGS scarce (4) £300-£400

Approximately 89 Africa General Service Medals with clasp Nigeria 1918 awarded to the Nigerian Land Contingent.

Lewis Harold Boileau was born in Shillong, Assam, India, on 2 January 1888. Educated at Monkton Combe School, Bath, he served as Secretary to the Governor of the Falkland Islands from 1910 to 1914, before his appointment as an Assistant District Officer with the Nigerian Civil Service on 29 April 1914. Also serving as a Private with the Nigeria Land Contingent during the Abudi War of 1918, he was later appointed Principal Assistant Secretary to the Nigerian Government Secretariat in 1930. Upon his retirement in 1939, he returned to England and joined the Home Guard for service during the Second World War with the 54th (Kent) Battalion from 1940 to 1943, the 71st Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery from February to April 1943, and the 2nd (County of London) Battery until July 1945. He died, aged 68, at Egham, Surrey, on 7 January 1956.

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