Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant-Colonel H. G. Walker, Bombay Infantry

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Lt. H. G. Walker. Asst. Supt. A. Sign.); India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1901-2 (Captn. H. G. Walker, 9th Bob: Inf:) official correction to first initial; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum, unnamed as issued, good very fine (3) £500-£700

Henry George Walker was born on 22 September 1866, and was gazetted Lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Regiment on 25 August 1886; transferred to the Indian Army, 28 June 1888; wing officer 12th Bombay Infantry, 5 July 1889; Captain, 25 August 1897; double company commander, 9th (later 109th) Bombay Infantry, 17 July 1901; attached 1st Bombay Grenadiers as officiating 2nd in command, 17 August 1902; Major, 109th Bombay Infantry, 25 August 1904; 2nd in command, 26 July 1906; Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant 109th Bombay Infantry, 7 November 1911. Served in the Dongola expedition of 1896, as Assistant Superintendent of Army Signalling, Suakin Force (Medal); North West Frontier of India 1901-02, Waziristan (Medal with clasp; East Africa 1903-04, Somaliland operations (Medal with clasp).