Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

The mounted group of eight miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel R. C. R. Owen, C.M.G., O.B.E., F.R.G.S., Egyptian Army, late Oxfordshire Light Infantry, Order of St. Michael and St. George, gold and enamel, with gold buckle on ribbon; Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Military Division, silver-gilt; India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, N.E. Frontier 1891, Burma 1889-92; India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-8, Tirah 1897-8; British War Medal; Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class, silver and enamel, rosette on ribbon, enamel damage; Turkey, Order of Medjidie, silver, gold and enamel, rosette on ribbon; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 1st type, 1 clasp, Sudan 1912, mounted as worn, good very fine and better except where stated (8) £200-250

Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Carmichael Robert Owen was born in 1866 and educated at at Rossall. He entered the 3rd King’s Shropshire Light Infantry in 1884, transferring to the Oxfordshire Light Infantry in 1888. Promoted Captain in 1898, he served in both the Manipur Expedition 1891 and Wutho Expedition in Upper Burma in 1891 as Superintendent of Army Signalling. Service in the Mohmand Expedition 1897-98 and Tirah Expedition 1897-98 followed, during which time he was severely wounded. Serving with the King’s African Rifles during 1899-1902, he was then appointed to the Egyptian Army. He served as Director of the Intelligence Department in the Egyptian War Office 1905-8 and was Governor of Mongalla Province, Sudan 1908-18. He was awarded the C.M.G. and placed on retirement pay in the British Army during 1906. In the Sudan, he was Political Officer, Southern Column, in the Beir Expedition 1912. In the Great War he was promoted Major in the British Army during 1915, Lieutenant-Colonel in 1918, was twice mentioned in depatches and awarded the O.B.E. in 1919. In the Egyptian Army he was appointed Major-General and Pasha in 1916 and was Governor of the Eastern and Southern Deserts Province of Egypt during 1918-20.