The Allan and Janet Woodliffe Collection of Medals Relating to the Reconquest and Pacification of the Sudan

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Edward Wylie, Kings Own Scottish Borderers, who onetime commanded the Arab Battalion of the Camel Corps

British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col.); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 2nd issue, no clasp, unnamed, good very fine and better (4)
£1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Allan and Janet Woodliffe Collection of Medals relating to the Reconquest and Pacification of The Sudan 1896-1956.

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Percy Edward Wylie was born in Calcutta on 13 August 1884, and was baptised in Nutley, Sussex, 22 August 1901. He was a Cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 23 April 1904; he was advanced to Lieutenant in November 1906. Having previously served with the K.O.S.B. in Egypt in 1903, he was attached to the Egyptian Army in October 1911. He served in the Kassala District of Sudan, October 1911-December 1912 and then the Blue Nile District, January-December 1913 and was promoted to Captain in February 1914. With the onset of war he was serving with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and served in the Sudan as Officer Commanding the Arab Battalion Camel Corps, in operations in Eastern Sudan against poachers and slavers and took part in the Darfur operations, 1916. Advanced to the local rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in December 1917.

Struck off the strength of the Egyptian Army on 17 November 1920 and reverted to the home establishment, being posted back to the 2nd Battalion K.O.S.B. Upon his retirement from the Egyptian Army he was awarded the Egyptian Order of the Nile (London Gazette 22 April 1922). Wylie retired on 26 August 1922 due to ill health with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and died on 10 March 1953 at Tamboerskloof Nursing Home, Cape Town.

With a folder containing copied research.