Orders, Decorations and Medals

Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, Grand Cordon set of insignia by Lattes, Cairo, sash badge, 63mm., silver, silver-gilt and enamel; breast star, 95mm., silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with full sash ribbon, in case of issue (catch damaged), extremely fine (2) £350-400

Francis Thomas Dallin was the only son of the Rev. Thomas Francis Dallin. He was educated at Rugby School, 1887-92, being in the Rugby XV in 1891, and was then at Queen’s College, Oxford, 1892, gaining a First Class Classical Moderations, 1894, and a B.A., 1896. Employed with the Egyptian Civil Service from 1897, he was latterly Under Secretary of State in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance. As such he was awarded the Egyptian Order of the Nile 1st Class in 1924, having previously been granted the 2nd Class in 1920. Leaving Egypt some time after the end of the Great War, he lived at Coombe House, Chieveley, Newbury and was appointed a Commissioner of Rates and Taxes for the County of Berkshire (London Gazette 2 August 1927).

Sold with original award document for the Order of the Nile, Grand Cordon (in Arabic) and envelope; ‘Permission to Wear’ document for the same, dated 5 January 1924; an Order of Service for the Memorial Service to Field Marshal Kitchener, at the Kasr-el-Nil Barracks, Cairo, 13 June 1916; an invitation card for a Dinner in celebration of the end of hostilities and in honour of General Allenby given by the British Community in Cairo; a letter addressed to Dallin, from ‘The Residency, Cairo’, dated 30 April 1923, reading,

‘Dear Dallin, It would give me much pleasure if you would come to a party which I am giving at 9.30 p.m. on Saturday May 5th. I am inviting, on the occasion of Ramadan, a number of the principal Moslem dignitaries of Cairo. I am anxious that they should meet some representative Englishmen who will talk to them in Arabic and help to make their visit a success. Yours sincerely [signed in ink] Allenby’.

Together with a pen and ink drawing and other items.