Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Sergeant Instructor S. G. Wallingford, School of Musketry, onetime attached Uganda Rifles

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Uganda 1900 (8937 Serjt., Uganda Rif.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (637 Sjt. Instr., School of Mskty.), together with related Army Rifle Association Methuen Cup Medal 1895, with Bars for ‘1904’, ‘1905’, ‘1907’ and ‘1908’, silver-gilt and enamel, in its Ninnes, Hythe case of issue, the first with minor official correction, contact marks, very fine or better and rare (3) £400-500

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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One of just 15 Europeans awarded the ‘Uganda 1900’ clasp.

The 1st Battalion Uganda Rifles employed several Maxim Gun Squads in the 1900 expedition, all of which would have been kept under the watchful eye of Sergeant Wallingford, a noted marksman and Methuen Cup winner. According to records held by the Army Rifle Association, he ‘was the best military shot of his time’ and, apart from his Uganda sojourn, served at the School of Musketry at Hythe from 1894-1907, six times becoming army champion shot at Bisley.