Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Sergeant Instructor S. G. Wallingford, School of Musketry, attached Uganda Rifles, late Rifle Brigade

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Uganda 1900 (8937 Serjt: S. G. Wallingford. Uganda Rif.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (637 Sjt: Instr: S. G. Wallingford. School of Mskty.) contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (2) £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd.

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Provenance: Richard Magor Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, July 2003, when sold with his Army Rifle Association Methuen Cup Medal 1895, with Bars for ‘1904’, ‘1905’, ‘1907’ and ‘1908’.

40 British Officers and 15 British N.C.O.s awarded the ‘Uganda 1900’ clasp.

Sidney George Wallingford was born in Dover, Kent, and attested for the Rifle Brigade at Welshpool on 29 July 1887, aged 14 years 2 months. Posted to the 2nd Battalion in July 1889, he was posted to the 4th Battalion as a Boy in February 1890, and appointed Bandsman in April 1891. He was appointed Acting Corporal in October 1895, and promoted to Sergeant and appointed Sergeant Bugler in November 1898. He transferred to the Uganda Rifles on 6 July 1900, and served in East Africa until December 1902, when he returned to the Rifle Brigade Depot. He transferred to the Permanent Staff of the School of Musketry at Hythe on 8 February 1904, and was appointed Instructor of Musketry the following day. He was awarded the L.S. & G.C. medal in Army Orders of April 1906, was promoted to Company Sergeant-Major Instructor in June 1907 and was discharged on 28 July 1912. He was recalled for service in September 1914 and served for the duration of the war at the School of Musketry, being promoted Quartermaster Sergeant Instructor in January 1917 and discharged on 11 June 1919.

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 1894-1912, six times becoming army champion shot at Bisley.

Sold with copied discharge papers and report of operations in Uganda in 1900.