Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Major Charles Henry Gore, Royal Army Service Corps, late Egyptian Army

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1918; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 2nd issue, 2 clasps, Darfur 1916, Nyima 1917-18, unnamed; Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon, good very fine (6) £1200-1400

O.B.E. London Gazette 18 November 1918.

M.I.D. (2) London Gazette 29 May 1917 & 5 December 1918.

Order of the Nile, 4th Class London Gazette 21 September 1923.

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 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 4th Class 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.

Approximately 66 'Nymia 1917-18' clasps awarded to British recipients, of which only 29 recipients were already in possession of the medal and clasp for earlier campaigns. With copied notes.