Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Captain W. H. Lowder, Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, later Superintendent of the Mechanical Transport Service, Sudan Defence Force

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (4602256 W.O. Cl. II. W. H. Lowder. D.W.R.); Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, Fifth Class breast badge, silver, gold, and enamel, generally nearly extremely fine (7) £300-£400

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

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Provenance: Colin Narbeth Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2007.

William Henry Lowder was born in Wolverhampton on 25 January 1900, and attested for the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment at Lichfield, Staffordshire, on 1 May 1918. Arriving in Egypt on 14 December 1922, he spent the next 20 years in Egypt and the Sudan with the Sudan Defence Force, and was Advanced Warrant Officer Class I on 1 January 1938. Commissioned War Substantive Lieutenant and Honorary Captain in the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment on 11 February 1943, he relinquished his commission on 15 March 1954, and was granted the honorary rank of Captain. He died at Gradley, Bromyard, Herefordshire, on 1 May 1970.

Sold with original bestowal document for the Order of the Nile (in Arabic), with envelope; original ‘Permission to Wear’ dated 7 April 1942; Second War medals Army Council enclosure; British Forces Identification Card, dated 1944 and bearing the recipient’s photograph; and copied research.