Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A ‘Sudan’ O.B.E. group of five awarded to Major C. H. Gore, Army Service Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, 2nd issue, 2 clasps (loose on ribbon), Darfur 1916, Nyima 1917-18, unnamed, good very fine (5) £600-700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Indian Army from the Collection of AM Shaw.

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Ex Nimrod Dix Gazette, November 1981, and Spink, Numismatic Circular, May 1983 (on both occasions sold with an Order of the Nile); Glendining's 2 March 1988.

O.B.E. London Gazette 18 November 1918. ‘For military operations in Egypt to be dated 3 June 1918’. 

M.I.D. London Gazette 29 May 1917 & 5 December 1918. 

Charles Henry Gore was born on 28 November 1881, the son of Sir Francis Charles Gore and Constance Mary Bruce. He was educated at Radley College, Abingdon, Oxfordshire and Trinity College, Oxford. As a Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps, he entered the Middle Eastern theatre of war on 28 January 1915. Gore served in the Darfur Operations 1916 and was mentioned in despatches. Continuing to serve in Sudan, 1917-18, he served in operations in the Nyima Hills, Nuba Mountains Province, and was again mentioned in despatches and was awarded the O.B.E. After the war he was Director of Supplies and Transport of the Egyptian Army and for his services was awarded the Order of the Nile 3rd Class (not with lot) in 1923. In 1928 he gained an M.A. from Trinity College. He was variously, Governor of Giggleswick School; Governor of Radley College; Fellow and Bursar of Queen's College, Oxford and J.P. for Berkshire. Gore died in Oxford on 20 June 1941.

With some copied research.