Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Quarter-Master and Honorary Lieutenant J. Arthur, Army Service Corps

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Condr., Commissariat); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 2 clasps, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (C. of Supls., C. & T. [S]taff) contact wear and edge bruising, the latter partially obscuring unit details on the Egypt, otherwise generally about very fine and rare to unit (2) £600-700

James Arthur, who was born in August 1846, served in the ranks of the Commissariat and Transport Corps for nine years, and as a Warrant Officer in the same corps for a further 12 years. Appointed a Quarter-Master and Honorary Lieutenant in the newly established Army Service Corps in March 1891, he died while still in service at Dublin in April 1898.

His assorted medals and clasps are all verified by P.R.O. sources. Having served as a Conductor of Supplies out in South Africa during the 1879, he participated in the Egypt operations of 1882 and in the Gordon Relief Expedition of 1884-85, including the action at Abu Klea, latterly as a Conductor in No. 11 Company, Commissariat and Transport Corps, which was commanded by Captain Capper; he was, therefore, also entitled to the Khedive’s Star 1882.