Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Major J. H. Rivers, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, silver and enamel, rev. engraved, ‘Captain John Herbert Rivers, R.A.M.C., 1901’; Turkey, Order of Osmania, 4th Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-19081 clasp, Nyam-Nyam (Major, R.A.M.C.), mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (3) £400-450

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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John Herbert Rivers was born in Harlow, Essex on 16 November 1869. Appointed a Surgeon-Lieutenant in January 1893, he attained the rank of Major in July 1904. He was seconded for service with the Egyptian Army, January 1899-January 1906. Major Rivers served in the Sudan during 1905 and took part in the operations against the Nyam-Nyam tribes in the Bahr-el-Ghazai province on the Belgian Congo border. The force sent to restore order was composed of 18 British and 30 native officers, with some 700 men. For his services in the Egyptian Army he was awarded the Order of Osmania 4th Class in 1906. Major Rivers died at Fleet, Hampshire on 18 July 1913.