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An interesting ‘Great War’ C.B.E. group of three awarded to Mr Frank Worthington, a natural born adventurer and acquaintance of Cecil Rhodes, who accompanied Colonel Coryndon as his private secretary on his expedition to Barotse in October 1897, and managed to wreck Rhodes’ bathtub upon his return. Worthington ran the “Secret Ink Bureau” in support of M.I.6 during the Great War, with his services being in high demand from the Americans - led to an interview with President Woodrow...
Hammer Price: £1,800
The scarce Egypt and Sudan 1882-89 Medal awarded to Trumpeter H. Cottle, 19th Hussars, who was killed in action at El-Teb, 29 February 1884 Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 3 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Suakin 1884, El-Teb (1313. Pte. H. Cottle. 19th Hussars.) pawn broker’s mark to edge at 10 o’clock, good very fine £1,400-£1,800
Hammer Price: £2,400
Pair: The Reverend F. L. Warleigh, Chaplain, Royal Navy, who met a tragic end on his bicycle whilst trying to avoid a child, and being crushed to death by a traction engine in September 1899 Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Revd. F. L. Warleigh, B.A. Chap. R.N. H.M.S. “Northumberland”); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, reverse engraved ‘F. L. Warleigh’, nearly extremely fine (2) £300-£400
Hammer Price: £500
The scarce Egypt and Sudan 1882-89 Medal awarded to Private G. Thornhill, 5th Dragoon Guards, who was killed in action at Abu Klea, 17 January 1885 Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 clasps, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (1410. Pte. G. Thornhill. 5th Dgn. Gds.) remnants of lacquer, good very fine £2,000-£2,400
Hammer Price: £2,800
The extremely rare Egypt and Sudan 1882-89 Medal awarded to Private J. Washbrooke, 20th Hussars, killed in action at Toski, 3 August 1889 - the only British fatality at this action Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 clasps, Gemaizah 1888, Toski 1889 (2757. Pte. J. Washbrooke. 20th Husrs.) edge bruise, good very fine £2,000-£3,000
The Jebu 1892 campaign medal awarded to Mr George Stallard, Principal Judicial Officer for Lagos, and later Chief Justice of Sierra Leone East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1892 (Mr. G. Stallard.) officially engraved naming, good very fine £500-£600
Hammer Price: £550
A scarce ‘Defence of Kumassi’ group of five awarded to Doctor E. H. Tweedy, Assistant Colonial Surgeon at Kumassi during the siege and one of the Governor’s party in the break out from the city. Tweedy, a ‘good hinterland medical officer... well suited to the Northern Territories’, had already been wounded, and mentioned in despatches for service on the Gold Coast in 1897. He was wounded during the Defence of Kumassi, 29 April 1900, and once again mentioned in despatches for his...
Hammer Price: £4,000
The rare East and Central Africa medal awarded to the Reverend M. J. Hall, Church Missionary Society, Uganda, who drowned during a storm on Lake Victoria, 15 August 1900, and had two works published about his life - including one by his sister titled In Full and Glad Surrender: The Story of the Life and Work of Martin J. Hall (C.M.S. Missionary in Uganda) East and Central Africa 1897-99, 1 clasp, Uganda 1897-98 (Rev: Martin. J. Hall.) good very fine £1,000-£1,400
Hammer Price: £1,700
Five: Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. Townsend, East Surrey Regiment, and Pasha, Egyptian Army - Governor of Berber Province and then Kassala Province British War Medal 1914-20 (Major C. H. Townsend.); Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmanieh, Fourth Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Order of the Medjidieh, Fourth Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Sudan 1899, unnamed as issued; Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, 3rd Class neck badge, silver,...
Four: Private H. Hudson, 4th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who was killed in action whilst serving with the 2nd Battalion during the attack on High Wood, Somme, 8 September 1916 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Transvaal, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2324 Pte H. Hudson. K.R.R.C.) clasps mounted in this order; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (2324 Pte H. Hudson. 4th K.R.R.); British War and Victory Medals (2324...
Hammer Price: £400
The rare A.G.S. ‘Uganda 1900’ awarded to Mr. S. Browning [C.M.G.], attached Uganda Rifles, and later Provincial Commissioner, Western Province, Uganda - a colourful character, who mixed official duties with big game ‘poaching’ as recorded in African Roses by J. R. P. Postlethwaite. The latter’s book of short stories and poems chronicled British colonial figures living and working in Africa. The book was published in 1937, but the names used were fictitious and in the case of...
Hammer Price: £750
The A.G.S. ‘Jubaland’ awarded to Colonel P. R. Legh, 16th Bombay Infantry, who commanded his regiment during the punitive expedition against the Ogaden Somalis, November 1900 - April 1901, including taking temporary command of the expeditionary forces when Colonel T. P. B. Ternan fell ill Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Jubaland (Lt: Col: P. R. Legh, 16/Bombay Inf.) toned, good very fine £700-£900
The scarce A.G.S. ‘Gambia’ awarded to Mr P. E. Wainewright, Travelling Commissioner in the Gambia, who died of Malaria on McCarthy Island, 16 May 1901 Africa General Service 1902-56, high relief bust, 1 clasp, Gambia (Comr. P. Wainewright, Gambia F.F.) good very fine £600-£800
The A.G.S. with ‘Aro 1901-1902’ clasp awarded to Mr J. Watt [C.M.G.], District Commissioner, Southern Nigeria, and later Senior Resident Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Aro 1901-1902 (Dis: Commr J. Watt. Aro. F.F.) minor edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £500-£700
Hammer Price: £800
Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (Mr. P. McEnery Remount Dept.) nearly very fine £180-£220
Hammer Price: £240
Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (Lieut: W. Ommanney R.E.) very fine £260-£300
Hammer Price: £280
A particularly fine A.G.S. and 2 clasps awarded to Colonel F. L. Lloyd-Jones, 1/113th Infantry attached 102nd Grenadiers, who was the Commandant of Fort Sulaik when it was attacked and besieged by around 1,000 Kotaibi tribesmen, 25 - 29 October 1903. With approximately 60 men, Lloyd-Jones carried out an epic defence, and counter attack, against overwhelming odds - being severely wounded in the process. The action was part witnessed and recorded in detail by George Wyman Bury - the British...
Hammer Price: £850
The scarce A.G.S. ‘Somaliland 1902-04’ medal awarded to Sepoy Niyaz Ali, 2nd Sikh Regiment, who was one of 50 men of the regiment who were all killed in action at Gumburu, 17 April 1903 - when a force of thousands of Dervishes led by the Mad Mullah threw themselves on an isolated square of infantry, inflicting casualties of ‘9 British officers killed, and 187 men killed and 29 wounded. There were only six unwounded survivors’. Known afterwards as the “Gumburu Disaster”, the 2nd...
Hammer Price: £1,000
Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04, bronze issue (Kneader Yacoob Soobrati S. & T.C.) good fine, scarce £160-£200
The rare A.G.S. ‘S. Nigeria 1903-04’ awarded to W. E. B. Copland-Crawford, who was Political Officer for Major I. G. Hogg’s punitive expedition against the secret society known as the “Ekumeku” or “Silent Ones” in Southern Nigeria, 1903-04. Early ‘in 1904 there was a rising in the hinterland north of Asaba on the Niger River. The bulk of the local military force was engaged elsewhere, but on the report that two missionaries were cut off, Crawford assembled twenty soldiers and...
Hammer Price: £1,900
The scarce A.G.S. ‘N. Nigeria 1904’ awarded to Doctor G. B. Norman, Northern Nigeria Medical Department Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, N. Nigeria 1904 (Doctor G. B. Norman, N.N.M.D.) suspension slack, otherwise nearly extremely fine £600-£800
£600–£800
The rare A.G.S. ‘Kissi 1905’ awarded to John Coulson, (Corporal) Messenger, British Consulate at Monrovia Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kissi 1905 (John Coulson.) good very fine £700-£900
Hammer Price: £650
The superb A.G.S. ‘N. Nigeria 1906’ awarded to District Superintendent Captain N. Biggs, Northern Nigeria Constabulary, who was mortally wounded by a poisoned arrow whilst in the process of carrying out an arrest, February 1908. A veteran of the Second Boer War where he had served with the 4th (Glamorganshire) Company, 1st Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry and been wounded in action near Vrede, 10 October 1900. Biggs won 8 caps playing Rugby for Wales, making his debut in 1888 against the...
The scarce A.G.S. ‘East Africa 1906’ awarded to C. W. Neligan, Political Officer, attached 3rd Battalion, King’s African Rifles, a veteran of the Boer War who served as a Lieutenant with the Imperial Yeomanry, and was praised by Captain J. W. O. Maycock, D.S.O. in his report of the operations against the Embu Tribe, June - July 1906. A talented and published photographer, he appears to have been destined for high office in the Colonial Service in East Africa, only to die of a heart...
Hammer Price: £1,200
The scarce A.G.S. ‘West Africa 1909-10’ awarded to Doctor E. M. Franklin, South Nigeria Field Force, later Senior Medical Officer, Gold Coast Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, West Africa 1909-10 (Dr E. M. Franklin, Medical Dept. S.N.F.F.) very fine £1,000-£1,400
Hammer Price: £1,400
The remarkable A.G.S. ‘Nyasaland 1915’ awarded to Captain J. ‘Jimmy’ Sutherland, a storied character and infamous elephant hunter who was ‘reputed to have a more intimate knowledge of Eastern and Central Africa than any other living man’. Over the course of 40 years in Africa, Sutherland was decorated by the Germans, the French and the British. He was wounded whilst fighting as a Volunteer for the Germans during the Maji-Maji Revolt of 1905, and later wrote and published The...
Hammer Price: £1,300
Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Nyasaland 1915 (L. S. Norman. Nyasaland Vol: Res:) very fine £300-£400
Hammer Price: £320
The scarce A.G.S. ‘East Africa 1915’ awarded to Sir E. J. Waddington [G.B.E., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O.], attached to the East Africa Police and later Governor and Commander in Chief, Northern Rhodesia, 1941-48 - a key player in the political manoeuvrings over the future of Northern and Southern Rhodesia during and after the Second World War Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, East Africa 1915 (E. J. Waddington Ration Escort.) attempted erasure to naming details, otherwise very fine ...
Hammer Price: £600
Family Group: Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (22860793 Pte R. G. Lewis. Buffs) in named card box of issue, good very fine Four: Able Seaman P. G. Lewis, Royal Navy 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, all loose, nearly extremely fine Victory Medal 1914-19 (13-025758 Dvr. J. H. Chilton. A.S.C.) nearly extremely fine (lot) £200-£300
Hammer Price: £220
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