Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Bagnall, Essex Regiment, late Yorkshire Regiment and Political Officer, Uganda Protectorate

East and Central Africa 1897-99, 2 clasps, Lubwa’s, Uganda 1897-98 (Capt. C. E. Bagnall, 4/Yorks: Regt:); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Uganda 1900 (Capt: C. E. Bagnall, 4/Yorks. R.); British War Medal (Lt. Col. C. E. Bagnall); Zanzibar, Order of El Aliyeh, 4th class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, the last with some minor enamel chips, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (4) £1800-2200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The collection of Medals formed by the Late Clive Nowell.

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Charles Edward Bagnall was born in September 1861, the son of C. Bagnall of Sneaton Castle, Whitby. Educated at Uppingham, where he was a member of the rugby football XV, he was commissioned into the 4th (Militia) Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment in 1891.

In July 1896, Bagnall found employment as a Collector, 2nd Class in the Uganda Protectorate, and, in the following year, having retained his Militia appointment, participated in the expedition into Teita district and, later, in the action against the Sudanese mutineers at Lubwa’s, services that resulted in a “mention”. He was similarly employed in the Uganda operations of 1900, when the Nandi fought courageously and very nearly overran the British camp under Colonel T. J. Evatt, D.S.O. - the Army’s and auxiliaries’ casualties amounted to 103 killed, 4 died of wounds and 111 wounded, many of the latter by poisoned arrows. In spite of the fact that treatment tended to comprise an injection of strychnine into the wound, all such cases are believed to have survived.

Bagnall was advanced to Major - Militia rank - on the Reserve of Officers in February 1902, and added the Order of El Aliyeh to his honours in 1906, in recognition of services rendered to the Sultan of Zanzibar (London Gazette 13 July 1906). During the Great War, among other appointments, he commanded the 2nd Garrison Battalion, Essex Regiment.