Orders, Decorations and Medals

A C.M.G. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel W. W. Pope, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with silver-gilt swivel ring and straight bar suspension and silver-gilt buckle on ribbon, some enamel damage to centres; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Surgeon, A.M. Dept.), some pitting; India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Surgn. Major, A.M.S.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (Lt. Col., R.A.M.C.); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed, very fine and better (5) £900-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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William Wippell Pope was born in Exeter on 17 September 1857 and was educated at Sherbourne School.

He entered the Army as a Surgeon, afterwards Surgeon-Captain, in February 1881. He served in the Egypt campaign of 1882, being present at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, and in 1888 served in the operations in Zululand. Promoted to Surgeon-Major in February 1893, he was next employed with the Tirah Expeditionary Force, 1897-98. In the Boer War he took part in the operations in Natal during 1899, including the actions at Reitfontein and Lombard’s Kop. He was then present in the defence of Ladysmith, including the action of 6 January 1900. Pope attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in February 1901 and was placed on Retired Pay in June the same year. He was re-employed in 1914 and was awarded the C.M.G. for his wartime services (London Gazette 24 January 1917).

Lieutenant-Colonel Pope died on 31 January 1924.

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