Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Assistant Commissary General E. Fitzstubbs, Commissariat and Transport Staff

Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (Asst. Comsy. Fitzstubbs, Control Dept. 1873-4); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (A.C. Genl. E. Fitzstubbs, C. & T. Staff); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed, some contact marks, very fine and better (3)

Assistant Commissary Edwin Fitzstubbs served in the Ashantee War under Sir Garnet Wolseley. He was based at Accrofumu with a detachment engaged in keeping open the lines of communication. He was appointed to the Commissariat and Transport Staff in January 1880 and served in the Egyptian War of 1882 as Assistant Commissary General. Granted the Honorary rank of Major (London Gazette 20 February 1885). With copied roll extracts.