Auction Catalogue

19 September 2003

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. To coincide with the OMRS Convention

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 64

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19 September 2003

Hammer Price:
£580

The Gambia campaign medal awarded to Mr Percy Wainewright, Travelling Commissioner in the Gambia

Africa General Service 1902-56
, 1 clasp, Gambia (Comr. P. Wainewright, Gambia F.F.) high relief bust, nearly extremely fine £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to Civilians from the Collection of John Tamplin.

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Percy Errington Wainewright was appointed a Travelling Commissioner at South Bank, in the Gambia, on 4 November 1896. He arrived in the Colony on that same day and was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Colony two days later. At the time of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in June 1897, Wainewright was one of the many inhabitants of the Gambia whose name appears on an Address to the Queen, published in the Gambia Special Gazette of June 1897. He attended a Levée at Government House on the 21st of June, given by His Excellency the Administrator, Robert Llewelyn, C.M.G., but was unavoidably absent from a Dinner given by the Administrator on the 24th of June.

Wainewright was transferred from South Bank to M’Carthy Island District in November 1897. He took part in the operations in the Gambia from January to March 1901, for which he received the medal and clasp. Unfortunately, he contracted malarial fever and died shortly afterwards, on 16 May 1901, at M’Carthy Island. As he died intestate, his effects were sold by public auction at the Court House, Bathurst, on 30 July 1901. Sold with full research.