Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three; Captain A. B. E. Greville, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Alexandria 11th July (Midn R.N. H.M.S. “Alexandra”); East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Witu 1890 (Lieut., R.N. H.M.S. Cossack); Khedive’s Star 1882, good very fine (3) £500-600

Algernon Brooke Eden Greville was born on 19 May 1865, son of Admiral Stapleton Fulke Greville, R.N., and distantly related to the Earls of Warwick. He joined the Navy in January 1881, and was Midshipman of the Alexandra at the bombardment of Alexandria, 11th July, 1882. After a fight, he captured a dhow with fifty slaves on board off Zanzibar Harbour in 1890, and, as Lieutenant of Cossack, served in the Naval Brigade under the command of Vice-Admiral Hon. Sir E. R. Fremantle, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief, East Indies, for the punitive expedition against the Sultan of Vitu, in East Africa, in October 1890.

During the Great War Greville was in charge of the very important wireless station at Dover Castle and is entitled to the British War Medal. Prior to the war he was in charge of the Coast Guard vessels operating around Hythe, and was promoted acting Captain, Inspecting Officer of the Coast Guard, in June 1918. He retired in July 1919 with the rank of Captain, and died at Hythe on 9 September 1934. Sold with further research.