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5 & 6 December 2018

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Lot

№ 532

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5 December 2018

Hammer Price:
£1,400

Africa General Service 1902-56, 5 clasps, N. Nigeria, N. Nigeria 1902, N. Nigeria 1903, N. Nigeria 1903-04, N. Nigeria 1904 (Dr. F. W. Chesnaye. N. Nigeria Regt.) good very fine £1,400-£1,800

Provenance: Dr. A. L. Lloyd Collection, Bonhams, March 2013.

F. W. Chesnaye, a Civil Establishment Medical Officer to Northern Nigeria, ‘had the onerous responsibility of practicing his profession during one of the most turbulent periods of the Protectorate’s history, from July 1900 to March 1904, during which time a large number of Punitive Expeditions were undertaken. Certain rebels, not content with the murder of Local Officials and Civilian Residents, or indeed mere robbery, pillage, smuggling, or slave-trading, had the disturbing habit of eating their prisoners, a pastime that on occasions might at least have lessened Dr. Chesnaye’s work load. So too the use of poisoned arrows, a wound from which normally resulted in death within a few agonising minutes, a grim fate that befell, among others, Major Marsh on the Sokoto-Burmi Expedition of 1903.’