The Allan and Janet Woodliffe Collection of Medals relating to the Reconquest and Pacification of The Sudan 1896-1956

Eight: Lieutenant-Colonel Angus Cameron, Cameron Highlanders, who served at the battle of Gedid in 1899, became Governor of Sennar, then took part in the Senussi campaign in the Western Desert in 1915 and in the Garjak Nuer campaign in 1920 - thereby qualifying for the rare combination of both Khedive’s Medals

British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major A. Cameron); Defence Medal; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, Sudan 1899, Gedid (Capt. A. Cameron, Camn. Highrs.); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, 1 clasp, Garjak Nuer, unnamed; Order of the Nile, 2nd Class, neck badge by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamels, and breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamels, the reverse with arabic markings; Order of the Medjidie, 3rd Class neck badge, silver, gold and enamels, nearly extremely fine (8) £2000-2500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Allan and Janet Woodliffe Collection of Medals relating to the Reconquest and Pacification of The Sudan 1896-1956.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 30 January 1900 (Pursuit and defeat of the Khalifa; battle of Gedid); 25 August 1916; 5 June 1919.

Order of the Nile, 2nd Class London Gazette 28 March 1919.

Order of the Medjidie, 3rd Class London Gazette 30 December 1907.

Angus Cameron was born in Nairn on 25 October 1871, his father being Dr J. A. Cameron, Medical Officer for Banff, Elgin and Nairn. He was named Angus after his grandfather, an official of the Hudson Bay Company who had moved to Nairn in 1843 when he acquired the family home of Firhall.

After attending school at Darlington, he went to Sandhurst for a year in February 1891. He was commissioned into the Cameron Highlanders on 18 May 1892, having left R.M.C. Sandhurst graded exemplary. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1893 and Captain in 1896.

He was seconded for service with the Egyptian Army in July 1899, and whilst with them he fought at the battle of Gedid, as an officer attached to the IXth Sudanese. In January 1906 he was appointed the first Governor of the newly created province of Mongalla, having previously been Senior Inspector of Sennar. In 1907 he was appointed to the third class of the Order of the Medijidieh, and in January 1908 became Governor of Kassala Province. In July 1909 he was seconded for service with the Sudan Government, having been promoted to Major in March of the same year. He became Governor of Sennar Province in January 1913.

During the Great War he served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the Western Desert, in the campaign against the Senussi Arabs, and mentioned in despatches for 'work connected with the situation in the Sudan created by the War’. He received his Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1919, three months after being appointed to the second class of the Order of the Nile. From December 1919 to April 1920 he took part in the operations to pacify the Garjak Nuer tribe in the Eastern Nuer District of the Upper Nile. In December 1919 they raided their neighbours, the Burun, who were quite peacefully inclined. To prevent the troubles from spreading to the Lau Nuer two strong columns were sent out, the Northern commanded by Major G. C. Gobden, 9th Lancers, and the Southern commanded by Major C. R. K. Bacon, O.B.E., The Queen's Regiment. Operations continued until the end of April 1920. This was to be Cameron’s last active military service in the Sudan. He retired on 5 September 1921 with the substantive rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and returned to live in Nairn. In November 1924 his father died, at the age of 79, and Angus Cameron inherited the family home of Firhall. He was a member of the local Home Guard during the Second World War. He died at the age of 89 on 7 January 1961.

With a folder containing extensive research with some photographs.