Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain E. G. Verschoyle, Grenadier Guards, who died of wounds received at Thaba N’chu in May 1900

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Captain E. G. Verschoyle, 1/Gren Gds.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Capt. E. G. Verschoyle, Gren: Gds.); Khedive‘s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum Capt. E. G. Verschoyle 1 Bt. Grenadier Guards) extremely fine (3) £2000-2500

Edward Greville Verschoyle died of wounds received in action at Thaba N’chu on May 5th, 1900. He was the son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Verschoyle, Grenadier Guards, of Killbery, co. Kildare, by his marriage with Lucy Clarissa, third daughter of Ambrose Goddard, Esq., of the Lawn, Swindon. He was born in November 1866, and educated at Wellington, where he was in Kempthorne’s House, 1880-84. He entered the Grenadier Guards from the Royal Military College in May 1855, being promoted Captain in October 1897. He served in the Nile Expedition of 1898, and took part in the battle of Khartoum, receiving the medal and Egyptian medal and clasp. Captain Verschoyle accompanied his battalion to South Africa in March 1900, and served in the Cape and Orange River Colonies up to the time of his death. He died suddenly of his wounds, in hospital, on the morning of May 6th. On the following day, ‘wrapped only in a blanket, as a soldier should be, he was buried in Thaba N’chu cemetery, and a wooden cross was soon after put up over his grave until the wishes of his family could be known’.

See Lot 847 for the Crimean War group awarded to his father.