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1 March 2017

Hammer Price:
£5,500

A Sudan D.C.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant A. Jones, Royal Engineers, for gallantry at the Battle of Omdurman, 2 September 1898

Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (2/ Corpl. A. Jones. R.E. 2nd. Sept: 1898.); Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (24870 2/Cpl. A. Jones. R.E.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (24870 Serjt: A. Jones. R.E.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (24870 2nd Corpl. A. Jones 2nd. Coy. R.E.) contemporarily engraved naming with rank corrected, edge bruise to second, light contact marks, nearly extremely fine (4) £3000-4000

Provenance: J. B. Hayward, May 1979; Sotheby’s, November 1984.

D.C.M. London Gazette 15 November 1898.

Arthur Jones was born in Leicester in 1869 and attested for the Royal Engineers there on 2 June 1890. Promoted 2nd Corporal on 1 May 1896, he served with the Corps in Egypt and the Sudan from 30 October 1896 until 10 June 1901, and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his gallantry at the Battle of Omdurman, 2 September 1898, one of five D.C.M.s awarded to the Corps for Omdurman, during which battle the Royal Engineers were used as infantrymen. Promoted Corporal on 1 April 1899, and Sergeant on 1 April 1901, he served briefly but geographically-extensively in South Africa from 1 May 1902, before returning home on 11 November 1904. He was discharged as medically unfit on 4 August 1905, after 15 years and 64 days’ service.