Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Nyima (Capt. W. H. Gillatt.) contemporarily engraved naming, edge bruising, good very fine, scarce to British officers £200-£240

William Harold Gillatt was born in Broomhill, Sheffield on 29 August 1878, and was educated at Glasgow University. He was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 30 January 1906, and served in the Nyima Hills Expedition in November 1908 on attachment to the Egyptian Army. He was promoted Captain on 30 July 1909, and died in Cairo on 3 March 1911 whilst in service (attached to the Egyptian Army) having accidentally shot himself. His brother John Maxwell Gillatt rose to become a Lieutenant-Colonel and was awarded the D.S.O. during the Great War with the Royal Scots, and an O.B.E. for service with the Iraq Levies; he later died in service with the Albanian Gendarmarie.

Sold with copied medal roll extract for the Nyima clasp, dated 22 May 1909, which shows only 27 officers on it, Gillatt being the only R.A.M.C. officer. This scarce clasp is believed to be his sole entitlement.