Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private G. Butwell, Cameron Highlanders, who was wounded at the Battle of Omdurman on 2 September 1898

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (2941 Pte: G. Butwell 1/Cam: Hrs:); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (2941 Pte. G. Butwell, 1: Cam’n: H’drs:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2941 Pte. G. Butwell. Cameron Highrs:); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum, with unofficial top retaining rod (2941 Pte. Buttwell [sic] 1 Cam. Highrs.) contemporarily engraved in the usual regimental style, edge bruise to QSA and KS, good very fine (4) £600-£800

George Butwell was born in Birmingham and attested for the Cameron Highlanders on 29 January 1892, aged 18. He served with the Regiment in Malta from 9 April 1892 to 18 February 1895; in Gibraltar from 19 February 1895 to 3 October 1897; and then in Egypt and the Sudan from 4 October 1897 to 2 March 1900. He took part in the Nile Expedition of 1898, and was present at the Battles of the Atbara and Omdurman, being severely wounded by a bullet to the leg in the latter action on 2 September 1898. The Cameron Highlanders suffered 25 other ranks wounded at Omdurman, the greatest number of casualties to an Infantry unit, and second only to the 21st Lancers. He saw further in action in South Africa during the Boer War from 3 March 1900 to 30 July 1902, and transferred to the Army Reserve on 7 October 1902. He was finally discharged on 21 January 1908, after 16 years’ service.

Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts.