Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Gambia (Comr. H. L. Pryce, Gambia F.F.) very fine and rare £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Richard Magor Collection of Medals Relating to India and Africa, and other Fine Awards.

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Howard Lloyd Price, who was appointed a Travelling Commissioner in the Gambia in October 1896, was attached to the Gambia Field Force during the operations of January to March 1901. The expedition was mounted in response to the murder of two of his fellow Travelling Commissioners, Messrs. Sitwell and Silva, with their escort of six Constables, at a village called Sandandi.

Pryce’s subsequent appointments in the Gambia included a stint as Acting Chief Magistrate from July to October of 1903, and as a 1st Class Travelling Commissioner in the North Bank Province from January of the following year. Advanced to Senior Commissioner, Gambia in 1912, he finally retired in 1920. Also the recipient of a C.M.G. (gazetted in 1911), he died in February 1932.