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The exceptionally rare Sudan group of five awarded to Sol Talim Khamis Effendi Mustapha, Xth Sudanese Infantry, who served during the Defence of Khartoum, gaining a “Gordon Star”, escaped, and continued to fight on the frontier until finally taking part in the recapture of Khartoum Khedive's Star, undated, unnamed as issued; Khedive's Sudan 1896-1908, 8 clasps, Firket, Hafir, Sudan 1897, Abu Hamed, The Atbara, Khartoum, Gedaref, Sudan 1899, correctly named in Arabic; General Gordon's Star...
Hammer Price: £3,900
Five: Captain Tristan Dannreuther, Royal Navy, who served as a Lieutenant in H.M.S. Melita and as Harbourmaster at Suakin: a navigation expert who later took part in the hunt for the German cruiser Koenigsberg off the coast of East Africa in 1914, he afterwards became Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence 1914-15 Star (Commr. T. Dannreuther, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt. T. Dannreuther, R.N.); Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, silve...
Hammer Price: £1,100
Five: Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel Eugene Cretin, Indian Medical Staff, who served at the Suakin Field Hospital Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Surgn. E. Cretin, 31st Ben: N:I:); India General Service 1854-94, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (Surgn. Eugene Cretin, 1st Bl. Infy.); Queen‘s Sudan 1896-98 (Sur. Maj. E. Cretin, 1/Beng’l Inf.); India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Surgn. Major E. Cretin, I.M.S.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp (Surgn. Major...
Hammer Price: £1,800
Pair: Colonel Benjamin William Marlow, C.S.I., C.I.E., Gloucester Regiment and Madras Staff Corps, who served on the staff of Brigadier Egerton at Suakin, later becoming Military Accountant General of the Indian Army India General Service 1854-94, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Lieut. B. W. Marlow 12th Madras Infy.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp (Capt. B. W. Marlow. Staff, Suakin Field Force) good very fine (2) £500-600
Hammer Price: £500
The important Boer War K.C.M.G., Sudan D.S.O. group of ten awarded to Major-General Sir Percy Girouard, a Canadian who won his D.S.O. as architect and builder of Kitchener’s famous desert railway to which the success of the reconquest owed so much: he later took up a number of important railway appointments before becoming Governor of Northern Nigeria and afterwards the East Africa Protectorate The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, K.C.M.G. Knight Commander’s set of ins...
Hammer Price: £12,500
History of the Railways during the War in South Africa, 1899–1902, by Lt. Col. Sir E. P. C. Girouard, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., R.E., Director of Railways, South Africa Field Force, London 1903, 149pp with several plates and maps all present, half leather binding, gold embossed stamp of the Royal Engineers Library on front cover, one of the rarest books on military railways published, spine worn and corners bruised, otherwise contents good £400-500
Hammer Price: £820
The rare and impressive K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., Sudan D.S.O. group of eleven awarded to Captain Sir Edward Colpoys Midwinter Pasha, Royal Engineers, one of Kitchener’s “Band of Boys” who helped build the desert railway and was awarded the D.S.O. for the battles of Atbara and Omdurman - he afterwards became Director of Sudan Railways and Steamers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, K.B.E. (Civil) Knight Commander’s 1st type set of insignia, comprising neck badge and breast star, si...
Hammer Price: £6,800
The rare Sudan D.S.O. group of eight awarded to El Lewa (Major-General) W. H. Drage, Commissariat and Transport Corps, an old frontier hand who was awarded the Turkish Medjidie for Toski and who became responsible for keeping Kitchener’s army supplied - winning one of only two D.S.O’s for operations around Abu Hamed in 1897 Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 2 clasps, The Nile 1884-85, Toski 1889 (Condr. W. H. Drage, C & T. Staff); Queen’s...
Hammer Price: £4,800
Five: El Kaimakam James Sillem Bey, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Welsh Regiment who, on attachment to the Egyptian Army, commanded the 3rd Egyptian Infantry throughout the reconquest Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Gemaizah 1888 (El Kaiwakam Sillem Bey. Capt: Welch R. 3 Bn. E.A.); Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Kaimakam Sillem Bey. 3/Bn. E.A.); Khedive’s Star, undated; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 6 clasps, Firket, Hafir, Abu Hamed, Sudan 1897, The Atbara, Khartoum (Lt. Col. J. Sillem. Welch Regt.);...
Hammer Price: £3,100
The magnificent G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.St.J., Sudan D.S.O. group of twenty-four awarded to General Sir Henry Macleod Leslie Rundle, Royal Artillery, who was recommended for the Victoria Cross at the defence of Potchefstroom during the 1st Boer War, awarded the D.S.O. for the action at Sarras, and was Kitchener’s Chief of Staff during the reconquest of the Sudan - before going on to successfully command the 8th Division during the South African War The Most Honourable Order of the Ba...
Hammer Price: £24,000
The rare and impressive C.M.G., C.V.O., C.B.E., Sudan D.S.O. group of twenty awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel James Kiero Watson, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who was awarded the D.S.O. for services during the reconquest of Dongola: a close friend of Lord Kitchener, to whom he was A.D.C. in the Sudan and in South Africa, he commanded an advance at Gallipoli in 1915 before retiring as Military Attaché in Cairo The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s breast...
Hammer Price: £8,400
Ten: Major-General Sir E. G. T. Bainbridge, K.C.B., East Kent Regiment, who served with the Egyptian Army and in river gunboats during the reconquest, and went on to command the 7th Mounted Infantry during the Boer War, and the 25th Division on the Western Front Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Bimb: E. G. T. Bainbridge, E.A.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (Lt: Col: E. G. T. Bainbridge, E/ Kent Rgt.); 1914-15 Star...
Hammer Price: £4,100
The rare C.B. group of four awarded to Colonel Charles Gilbert Colvin Money, who was awarded the C.B. for his command of the Northumberland Fusiliers at the battle of Omdurman, and who later took command of the 9th Brigade in Boer War at the battles of Belmont and Graspan The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge converted for neck wear, silver-gilt and enamels, in its Garrard & Co case of issue; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Lt. Col: C. G. C. Money, 1/Northd...
Three: Chaplain to the Forces the Reverend Reginald Moseley, Army Chaplains Department, who took a prominent role in the memorial service for Gordon in Khartoum and later became Chaplain of the Royal Hospital Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (4/Cl. Rev: R. Moseley, M.A. C.D.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (Rev: R. Moseley, M.A., C. to F:); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum, unnamed as issued, edge bruising and contac...
Hammer Price: £2,300
The rare and impressive inter-war C.B., Great War C.M.G., Sudan D.S.O. group of sixteen awarded to Major-General H. L. Pritchard, Royal Engineers, a veteran of the Ashanti campaign who was one Kitchener’s “Band of Boys”, helping to build the desert railway during the reconquest of the Sudan and winning a D.S.O. for the Atbara and Omdurman - in the latter engagement he conveyed vital messages under fire as “Fighting Mac’s” galloper: afterwards writing an important first hand history of the exp...
Hammer Price: £11,000
The remarkable inter-war C.B., Great War C.M.G., D.S.O. group of twelve awarded to Major-General William Dunlop Smith, Director General of Army Veterinary Services, who rode with the 21st Lancers in their famous charge at Omdurman and was afterwards taken prisoner during the defence of Mafeking in the Boer War The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’...
Hammer Price: £13,000
Four: Rene Bull, the famous Edwardian artist and book illustrator who was a War Artist and Correspondent for “Black & White” Magazine in the Tirah Expedition, at Omdurman and in the Boer War, prior to serving in the R.N.V.R. and R.N.A.S. during the Great War and finally dying aged 68 while employed at the Air Ministry during the 1939-45 War Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Mr. Rene Bull. “Black & White”); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Commr. R. Bull, R....
Hammer Price: £4,600
Black and White War Albums - Snapshots by René Bull, Special Correspondent to “Black & White”, Black & White Printing & Publishing Co, London, 1899, an original set of the rare 4 volume work; Vol. 1: Omdurman, 32pp; Vol. 2: Atbara, 32pp; Vol. 3: The Tirah Campaign, 32pp; Vol. 4: The Naval Number, 32pp, bound as one in contemporary red cloth; together with Vol. 1: Omdurman, 32pp, full blue leather binding with gold embossed crossed flags of Britain and Turkey, with title ‘Kartoum’ above, Ex Li...
Hammer Price: £440
The Queen’s Sudan Medal awarded to Sir Hector “Fighting Mac” MacDonald, K.C.B., D.S.O., who rose from the ranks in Afghanistan to command the 1st Egyptian Brigade at the Battle of Omdurman, saving it from disaster by his remarkable leadership, and who later committed suicide after being falsely accused of ‘impropriety’ in Ceylon: one of Scotland’s most famous soldiers, he was also immortalised as the Highland officer depicted on the label of ‘Camp Coffee’ bottles Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Bt:...
Hammer Price: £2,500
Sir Hector MacDonald, a remarkable and historically important manuscript letter to General Knowles, commanding in Egypt, in which MacDonald explains exactly how he saved his Brigade at Omdurman:
Hammer Price: £2,100
Sir Hector MacDonald, a scarce Boer war period parian-ware bust of General MacDonald, approx. 20cm, marked in the mould ‘By W. C. Lawton Sculpt. Copyright March 1900’, good condition £200-250
Hammer Price: £310
Sir Hector MacDonald, a glazed china memorial vase with coloured transfer print of General MacDonald in uniform, approx. 165mm., good condition £30-40
Hammer Price: £45
The nationally important group of Honours & Awards to General Sir John Maxwell, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.V.O., D.S.O., Black Watch, who won a gold D.S.O. at the battle of Ginnis in 1885, commanded an Egyptian Brigade at the battle of Omdurman, and a British Infantry Brigade in the Boer War, was commander of all troops in Egypt 1914-16, and afterwards in Ireland with orders to finally suppress the Easter Rising The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, K.C.M.G. Knight Commander...
Hammer Price: £26,000
The rare Sudan C.B. and Ginnis gold D.S.O. group of nine awarded to Brigadier-General G. L. C. Money, Cameron Highlanders, who commanded the Regiment at the battles of Atbara and Omdurman, where his horse was shot under him, and who was then given the signal honour of carrying Kitchener’s despatches home to the Queen: he was subsequently an A.D.C. to the Queen and to King Edward and served as Governor of Ceylon The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge...
Hammer Price: £7,000
Four: Mr. J. M. Edwards, 2nd Engineer of the gunboat Melik, who served on the White Nile and Bahr-el-Ghazal rivers during the ‘sudd’ clearances, and was awarded a Royal Humane Society bronze medal for attempting to rescue a soldier from the Nile at Mongalla Order of the Nile, 5th Class breast badge by Lattes, silver, gilt and enamels, in its Lattes case of issue; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Sudan 1899, unnamed as issued; Royal Humane Society, bronze medal (unsuccessful), (J. M. Edw...
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.); Khed...
Hammer Price: £2,400
The Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel F. J. Langdon, King's Own Liverpool Regiment, who fought at the battle of Gedid Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major F. J. Langdon); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, Sudan 1899, Gedid (Capt. F. J. Langdon, The King’s (L’pool) Regt.); French Croix de Guerre, with bronze star, good very fine (5) £1600-1800
The Sudan O.B.E. group of ten awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Burges, Gloucestershire Regiment, the man who captured the famous Emir Osman Digna and who later became the Police Magistrate at Khartoum, being one of the first members of the Sudan Political Service The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, top reverse arm inscribed ‘Captain F. Burges’; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Lt. F. Burges, E.A.); 1914-15 Star (Capt. F. Burges, Glouc. R...
Hammer Price: £4,900
The C.M.G. group of ten awarded to Brigadier-General Malcolm Peake, Royal Artillery, who commanded an Egyptian Army artillery battery throughout the reconquest, later became responsible for the epic feat of clearing a channel through the swamps of the southern Sudan to Uganda, and went on to command the 29th Division artillery at the battle of the Somme - he was killed in action on Hill 70 while commanding the artillery of the 1st Army Corps The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and...
Hammer Price: £4,000
Seven: Commander W. B. Drury, an Australian born Royal Navy officer who was attached to the Egyptian Army as a Bimbashi and worked with Captain Peake to clear the ‘sudd’ to open up a route up the White Nile and Bahr-el-Jabal rivers to Uganda 1914-15 Star (Cdr. W. B. Drury, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Cdr. W. B. Drury, R.N.) these three all later issues; Order of Osmanieh, 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Sud...
Hammer Price: £880
Three: Captain and Bimbashi H. E. Haymes, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was one of the original explorers of the Bahr-el-Ghazal region, receiving one of the seven commemorative cigarette cases, and who later died of wounds received in a Nyam Nyam ambush during the punitive expedition to avenge Scott-Barbour The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, silver and enamels, the reverse engraved (Lieutenant Henry Evered Haymes, R.A.M.C. 1901); Order of the Medjidie, 4th...
Hammer Price: £3,000
Six: Major William Hugh Hunter, Seaforth Highlanders, the Military Commandant of the Bahr-el-Ghazal province, who led the punitive expedition to avenge the murder of Scott-Barbour, and who later died of Blackwater fever Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Lieut: W. H. Hunter, 1/Sea: Highrs.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1891 (Captain W. H. Hunter, 2d Bn. Sea. Highrs.); Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Capt. W. H. Hunter, 1/Sea. Hrs.); Khedive’s Star 1882; Khedive’s Sud...
Hammer Price: £2,600
Four: Acting Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Iglas Stockwell, Seaforth Highlanders, who served with the Bahr-el-Ghazal expedition 1900-02, and who was mortally wounded at Armentieres in October 1914 Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Lieut. C. I. Stockwell, 1/Sea. Hrs.); Order of Osmanieh, 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 3 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum, Bahr-el-Ghazal 1900-02 (C. I. Stockwell); Order of the Medjidie, 3rd Class neck badge, silver, gold and enamels, g...
The Boer War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Captain Chandos Leigh, Kings Own Scottish Borderers, who took part in the Nyam Nyam expedition and died of wounds at Mons on 23 August 1914 Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (Capt. C. Leigh. D.S.O., K.O. Sco: Bord:) last clasp a contemporary tailor’s copy; Order of Osmania, 4th Class breast badge...
Hammer Price: £3,500
The Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Colonel B. W. Y. Danford, Royal Engineers, who took part in the Talodi expedition and commanded a Tunnelling Company in the Great War, becoming Inspector of Mines on the Western Front: he was shot and badly wounded in 1920, while trying to escape after being kidnapped by the I.R.A., along with General Lucas Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; 1914 Star, with clasp (Major B. W. Y. Danford, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak...
Hammer Price: £5,500
The unusual K.C.M.G., C.I.E. group of ten awarded to Sir Edward Bonham-Carter, an ex-England international rugby player who went on to set up the legal frameworks of the Sudan and Iraq, and who “accidentally” became involved in the Katfia affair in which he was wounded The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight Commander’s (K.C.M.G.) set of insignia, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with gold pin, with neck cravat, in Garrard,...
The Arab Bureau O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Major Alexander Wise, Connaught Rangers, who was severely wounded at Colenso before joining the Egyptian Army and serving on the Nyima patrol and afterwards with the Arab Bureau: in later life he settled in Egypt until thrown out by Nasser in 1956, along with all the other old hands who had served the country so well The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type Officer’s (O.B.E.) Civil Division, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London...
Hammer Price: £1,900
Emin Relief Expedition Star 1887-89, silver, hallmarked Birmingham 1889; together with a good example of Henry Morton Stanley's autograph,’Faithfully Yours, Henry M. Stanley’, extremely fine £600-700
Hammer Price: £1,500
Khartoum Siege Money, a rare first issue 100 piaster note bearing Gordon’s personal signature and his stamp as Governor-General of the Sudan, linen backed, about extremely fine £200-250
Hammer Price: £430
Khartoum Siege Money, a scarce second issue 100 piaster note bearing the hectographed signature of Gordon, and his stamp as Governor-General of the Sudan, about extremely fine £100-150
Hammer Price: £120
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