Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Egypt (N. W. Oliver, Lieut. R. Arty.) in an old red leather fitted case, minor edge bruise, otherwise toned, extremely fine £1500-2000

Nathaniel Wilmot Oliver was commissioned into the Royal Artillery as 2nd Lieutenant, 2 June 1796; 1st Lieutenant, 13 February 1798; 2nd Captain, 2 March 1804; Captain, 15 July 1808; Brevet Major, 4 June 1814; Major, 14 November 1826; Lieutenant-Colonel, 6 November 1827; Colonel, 10 January 1837; Major-General, 9 November 1846; Colonel Commandant, 30 June 1851.

Major-General Oliver served in Gibraltar, 1796-99; in Minorca, 1799-1800; in the Egyptian campaign of 1801, including the action on landing, 8th March, and battles on the 13th and 21st; in the Walcheren expedition, 1809, present at the siege of Flushing; and Bermuda, 1832-35. Major-General Oliver died at Clifton on 11 January 1854, aged 75 years, and is buried in St Andrew’s Churchyard, Clifton, Bristol.