Orders, Decorations and Medals

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Gambia 1894 (3233 Pte. G. Edwards, 1/W.I.R.), refixed suspension claw, probable replacement riband bar and the clasp with upper lugs, obverse field corroded overall, fine or better £100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Brian Kieran Collection.

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Strictly speaking military participants of the Gambia operations were awarded the clasp ‘1893-4’, though British Battles and Medals states ‘a Medal is known to a West India Regiment recipient’. In March 1894, Major G. C. Madden, D.S.O., an old Gambia hand, was ordered to proceed from Fort Britannia and secure all towns and villages in the area of Combo, and obtain all possible information about enemy movements. Proceeding with two Companies of the 1/W.I.R., some attached officers and two Maxims, his force subsequently captured and destroyed the villages of Madini and Kambujeh. Later still, some of his men were employed in the operations leading to the capture of Gunjur.