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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...
Hammer Price: £26,000
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...
Hammer Price: £24,000
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.,...
Hammer Price: £13,000
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...
Hammer Price: £12,500
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...
Hammer Price: £11,000
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...
Hammer Price: £8,400
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...
Hammer Price: £7,000
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...
Hammer Price: £6,800
The rare Senussi operations M.C. group of seven awarded to Lieuenant John Davies Lawrence, Manchester Regiment, who commanded a Rolls Royce armoured car in actions at Dakhla Oasis in the Western Desert Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘2nd Lieut. J. D. Lawrence, Manchester Regt., Nov. 1915’; 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Lieut.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, East Africa 1918 (Lieut., Equatorial Bn. E.A.);...
Hammer Price: £6,100
The Darfur operations M.C. group of four awarded to Captain Robert Starmer Audas, Army Veterinary Corps, also the recipient of an excessively rare 5 clasp Khedive’s Sudan 1910 Medal Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed, in case of issue; British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt.); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 5th Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 5 clasps, S. Kordofan 1910, Darfur 1916, Lau Nuer, Nyala, Nyima 1917-18, unnamed, good very fine and better (4) ...
Hammer Price: £5,500
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...
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,...
Hammer Price: £4,900
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);...
Hammer Price: £4,800
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....
Hammer Price: £4,600
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...
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,...
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
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...
Hammer Price: £3,900
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...
Hammer Price: £3,500
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...
Nine: Colonel Stuart McKenzie Saunders, Royal Army Medical Corps, a member of the first British Lions rugby team to tour Australia and New Zealand and a Doctor in the Sudan, who later served with the B.E.F. in 1940 1914-15 Star (Capt., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Capt.); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon, minor enamel damage; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 1 clasp, Darfur 1916, unnamed, mounted as...
Hammer Price: £3,100
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...
The rare Second World War M.M. group of six awarded to Onbashi Musa Ahmed Hamad, Sudan Defence Force Military Medal, G.VI.R. (34668 Onbashi Musa Ahmed Hamad, Sudan D.F.) impressed naming; Sudan Defence Force General Service Medal 1933; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed, nearly extremely fine (6) £3000-3500
Hammer Price: £3,000
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,...
Three: Major T. W. Stallybrass, Royal Army Medical Corps, a veteran of the Miri and Atwot operations who who later became Senior Medical Officer, Khartoum British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. T. W. Stallybrass) rank engraved; Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon, minor enamel damage; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 1st issue, 2 clasps, Miri, Atwot 1918, unnamed, mounted as worn, good very fine and better (3) £1200-1500
Hammer Price: £2,900
The Great War O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel David Alexander Fairbairn, West Riding Regiment, a veteran of the Zeraf operations The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type Officer’s (O.B.E.) Military Division breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1917; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2 Lieut., W. Rid. Rgt.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp,...
Hammer Price: £2,800
Nine: Engineer Lieutenant-Commander F. W. Wildish, Royal Naval Reserve, onetime attached to Sudan Government Steamers Department as Chief Engineer, and who afterwards served in Uganda 1914-15 Star (Eng. Lt. Cr., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Eng. Lt. Cdr., R.N.R.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals; Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1916; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 2nd issue, 1 clasp, Zeraf 1913-14, these all unnamed, mounted court...
Hammer Price: £2,600
Five: Major Ralf Sumner Gibson, Royal Marines Light Infantry, the only Marine to qualify for the ‘Mandal’ clasp and afterwards a member of the Sudan Government 1914-15 Star (Major, R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Maj., R.M.L.I.); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 1st issue, 1 clasp, Mandal, unnamed, mounted court style for display, extremely fine (5) £1200-1500
The Great War Italy operations M.C. group of five awarded to Major Stuart Frederick Maxwell Ferguson, Royal Artillery, who was wounded with the B.E.F. in 1914 and again at Delville Wood, and afterwards served in the Aliab Dinka operations Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Lieut., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Major); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 2nd issue, 1 clasp, Aliab Dinka, unnamed, mounted court style for display, cleaned, contact...
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;...
The Great War D.S.O. group of ten awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hutchins, Royal Irish Regiment, who served on the Dilling patrol on secondment to the Egyptian Army, and at Galipolli, before reverting to command the Camel Corps in the Canal Zone and Palestine - for which services he was awarded his D.S.O. Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut.,...
Hammer Price: £2,500
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...
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.);...
Hammer Price: £2,400
The Great War Mesopotamia operations D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Cox, Army Service Corps, who served on the patrol against the Beir and Annuak Tribes in South Eastern Sudan in 1912, and went on to serve in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and Salonika Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2...
Hammer Price: £2,300
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...
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...
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
Eight: Major John Going, Army Veterinary Corps, who served throughout the Sudan, becoming Senior Veterinary Officer to the Sudan Defence Force 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Lieut., A.V.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Capt.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed; Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 2nd issue, 1 clasp, Garjak Nuer, unnamed, mounted as worn; Defence and War Medals,...
Hammer Price: £2,000
Four: Corporal T. Dempster, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps, one of a handful of R.F.C. recipients of the Khedive’s Sudan 1910 Medal 1914-15 Star (3185 Cpl., T. Dempster, R.F.C.); British War and Victory Medals (3185 Cpl. T. Dempster, R.A.F); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 2nd issue, no clasp (3185 Cpl. T. Dempster, R.F.C.) officially impressed, good very fine and better (4) £1200-1500
Hammer Price: £1,900
Four: Major F. H. S. le Mesurier, Border Regiment, from the Channel Islands, who received a head wound at Gallipoli and two more wounds on the Western Front before being attached to the Egyptian Army 1914-15 Star (Capt., Bord. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 1st issue, 1 clasp, Nyima 1817-18 (El Bimbashi Le Mesuurier, 4th Bn. Egyptian Army) impressed naming; together with a silver prize medal, 32mm., dia., inscribed, ‘Regimental...
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