Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (Percival Hughes) a later impressed issue, nearly extremely fine and rare £100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Series of Medals for the Ashantee Campaign (1873-74).

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Percival Hughes first appears in the Colonial List with his appointments as Customs and Tide Surveyor, and Superintendent of Quarantine, in Gambia in May 1863. Serving at Dixcove as a Civil Commandant by 1872, Hughes acted in a similar capacity at Accra in 1876 before taking up appointment as a District Commissioner on Cape Coast in the following year. His subsequent postings included Sierra Leonne, where in the early 1880s he served as an Assistant Colonial Secretary and Treasurer, before returning to the Gold Coast in a similar capacity a few years later.