Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Quartermaster & Hon. Captain H. Folson, Coldstream Guards

Jubilee 1887, silver, unnamed; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (Qr. Mr. 1/Coldm. Gds.); Khedive’s Star, 1884-6, unnamed, mounted as worn, some contact marks and edge bruising, very fine (3) £340-380

Henry Folson was born in Preston, Lancashire, c.1841. The 1911 National Census for England and Wales records him as a retired Captain of the Coldstream Guards then residing at 106 Idmiston Road, West Norwood, S.E., London.

Quartermaster and Honorary Lieutenant Henry Folson was granted the honorary Rank of Captain on 1 April 1895. He retired from the British Army on 15 May 1895.