Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum ([?]4 Pte. W. Ethering..n, 21st [?]rs.), erased but traces of original naming, very fine £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Awards to the 21st Lancers.

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4054 Private W. Etherington, who originally appears on regimental muster rolls at Canterbury in July 1897, was killed in action while serving in ‘B’ Squadron in the charge at Omdurman on 2 September 1898, on which occasion two fellow squadron members, Lieutenant R. H. de Montmorency and Private T. Byrne, won V.Cs.

Records state that his Queen’s Sudan and Khedive’s Sudan Medals were sent to his father at 15 Lansdown Hill, West Norwood, Surrey; see Sotheby’s, 28 June 1990 (Lot 305) and Baldwin’s, 29 September 2010 (Lot 3217), for more recent appearances of his awards at auction, both catalogue entries noting an official correction to the initial on his Queen’s Sudan Medal - possibly grounds here for his Khedive’s Sudan having been returned, too, and another example issued; sold with copied research, including a small portrait of Etherington which originally appeared on an illustrated scroll (see Sotheby’s, 29 July 1996 (Lot 349)).