Orders, Decorations and Medals

East and Central Africa 1897-99, 1 clasp, Uganda 1899 (Lieut. C. de V. Beauclerk, K.R.R. Cps.) small edge bruise, otherwise extremely fine and extremely rare £800-1000

Only three medals with this clasp issued to British Army recipients, viz: Lieutenant F. R. Hicks, Hampshire Regiment; Sergeant S. W. Bone, South Lancashire Regiment; and Lieutenant C. de Vere Beauclerk, K.R.R.C.

This clasp was awarded to those members of the force under Major G. C. Martyr and Colonel J. T. Evat, comprising mainly of 27th Bombay N.I. and 1st Uganda Rifles, which advanced down the Nile, captured both Kabarega and Mwanga in the Ugandan Protectorate, and then continued on to Nandi.

Charles Edward de Vere Beauclerk was born on 10 September 1875, and commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 10 October 1894. He was appointed Lieutenant in the Uganda Militia in June 1898, immediately departing London for Uganda, via Marseilles and Mombassa. He served with the Wakedi Field Force in Unyoro, in March and April 1899 (Medal with clasp). He died on Kerenge Island, Lake Victoria, on 14 January 1900, whilst on his way from Kampala to Kisumu having been invalided to the coast with blackwater fever.