Four: Private E. Kiddell, Rifle Brigade

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (5212 Pte., 2/R. Bde.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal (5212 Pte., Rifle Brigade); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 1 clasp, South Africa 1902 (5212 Pte., Rifle Brigade); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum, unnamed, the first with slack suspension and severe edge bruise, otherwise generally very fine (4) £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Selection of Medals from the Collection of the Late Noel Morris.

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Edward (George) Kiddell was born at Lakenham, Norfolk in January 1878 and enlisted in the “Reserve of the Dragoons of the Line” at Colchester in April 1897, after brief service in the Norfolk Artillery. Quickly transferring to the Rifle Brigade, he witnessed active service with the 1st Battalion in the Sudan, Crete and South Africa, in which latter operations he participated in the defence of Ladysmith - Kiddell’s entitlement to a single-clasp King’s South Africa Medal was the result of him being invalided home sick after Ladysmith, but he later returned to South Africa with the 4th Battalion and was finally discharged in 1909; see article entitled Why Not Make It Two in Medal News, April 1989, a copy of which accompanies the Lot.