Auction Catalogue

18 May 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 83

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18 May 2011

Hammer Price:
£860

The rare O.B.E. group of six awarded to Bimbashi (Major) Yusef Effendi Dervish, a Medical Officer for his services in Equatoria

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type Officer’s (O.B.E.) Civil Division breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (Yuzb. Yusef Eff. Dervish, Med. Corps S.F.); British War and Victory Medals (Yuzbashi, Med. Corps E.A.); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 5th Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; Ottoman Empire, Order of Medjidie, 5th Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamel, mounted court style for display, good very fine (6) £800-1000

O.B.E. Sudan Government Gazette No. 482, 15 November 1926. ‘The King has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following appointment to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services rendered in the Sudan’

‘El Bimbashi Yusef Effendi Dervish, Medical Officer, Yei.’

He was awarded the 1914-15 Star trio as a Yuzbashi (Captain) in the Medical Corps of the Government of Sudan/Egyptian Army.