Orders, Decorations and Medals

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Nandi 1905-06 (Tel. NS. O. T. Doran, 3/K.A.R.) impressed naming, edge cut with vertical lines as occasionally found when local natives attempted to pass off the medal, minus suspension, as a 5-shilling piece, otherwise very fine £200-250

Doran later joined the Uganda Volunteer Reserve and was awarded the D.C.M. for gallantry in East Africa, a unique award to his regiment:

‘For conspicuous gallantry when holding with a few men, a post which he had constructed against an overwhelming number of the enemy, with a machine-gun. The enemy were not only driven off with very heavy casualties but their machine-gun was captured’ (London Gazette 16 May 1916 refers).

He was afterwards commissioned in the Baganda Rifles; see Sotheby’s, November 1988 (Lot 77) for his D.C.M. and British War & Victory Medals.