Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Uganda 1900 (Mr. L. E. Caine. Uganda Rifles) contact marks, nearly extremely fine, scarce £600-£800

Lionel Edward Caine was born in Swatow, China, on 9 April 1865 and served initially with the Eastern Telegraph Co. at Aden and Mombassa from 1893-97 before his appointment, in December 1897, as Assistant Superintendent of Telegraphs, Uganda Railway, in which capacity he served during the Uganda 1900 campaign. Appointed Superintendent of Telegraphs for both the East Africa and Uganda Protectorates in 1902 and Acting Postmaster General on 23 September 1914, he saw further service during the Great War in East Africa, holding the relative rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, attached Royal Engineers Volunteer Telegraph Section (entitled to a 1914-15 Star trio). He died in Sidmouth, Devon, in 1938.