Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, West Africa 1909-10 (3241 Pte. Sanusi, S.N. Regt.) good very fine £120-140

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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This relatively scarce clasp was awarded for various operations in Ogwashi-Oku country at the end of 1909 and in the first half of 1910, our casualties amounting to 34 killed or wounded.

According to Magor, Trenchard had an interesting conversation with a captured rebel leader, the latter concluding: “Give me one piss-gun (maxim) and I’ll beat you.”