Abyssinia Medal   1512. J. SHARMAN. 26TH REGT  £350  RESERVED
John Sharman confirmed on medal roll. Went to pension in August 1876, after 21 years service, 16 of them in India. 26th Foot - Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).


South Africa Medal (1853)   CORPL. A. ARNOLD. 90TH FOOT  £475
Medal confirmed on roll. 90th (Perthshire) Light Infantry.  


South Africa Medal (1853)  CLERK COMMIST. H. DE BEER.     £450
Medal confirmed on roll. Clerk was equivalent to an Ensign.


Ashantee Medal 1891-2   1331. PTE. H.F. WILLIAMS, 2ND. W.I. REGT. 1873-4   £300   SOLD
Medal confirmed without clasp. Henry F. Williams was discharged 24 June 1880 after 12 years service. Clasp needs to be removed.  
 

South Africa Medal (1879)  11878 SAPPER. W. HAISOME. R.E.     SOLD
Medal has been brooched on obverse and then restored. Obverse badly marked. William Haisome served with 30th Company, Royal Engineers. He was discharged December 1884, after 12 years service.


Egypt Medal (1882)  Tel-el-Kebir  2314 PTE. W. JORDAN. 7/D       £150
Naming rubbed. Medal roll for 7th Dragoon Guards doers not show entitlement to any clasp.  


Egypt Medal (1882)  14798, CORPL. A.S. CHUGG, 26TH CO. R.E.     £150
Alexander Sannio Chugg was born in Barnstaple, Devon and enlisted January 1878, aged 24 and was a "carpenter and draughtsman." Discharged as Quartermaster Sergeant, November 1902 and entitled to Khedive's Star and Army Long Service Good Conduct Medal. The Hampshire Telegraph 22 January 1887 reported on the inquest into an accident at Cambridge Barracks, Portsmouth when two privates of the Worcestershire Regiment were killed by a gas explosion. "Sergeant Major Alexander Sannio Chugg, Foreman of Works, Royal Engineers" gave evidence.
In 1921 he was a "Draughtsman on the Royal Engineer Civil Staff" at Derby. He died 24 July 1926 in Great Brookham, Surrey. 


Egypt Medal  9593 SAPR. W. MILLS. 11TH CO. R.E.    £125
William Mills was a 23 year old blacksmith when he enlisted in January 1868. Served in Canada (1870), Bermuda (1870-74), Gibraltar (1874-80), Egypt (1884-87). Convicted of being absent without leave 1886. Discharged June 1889. 


Egypt Medal  Suakin 1885   720 PTE. G. FRANCIS. 2/E.      £180
Roll confirms East Surrey Regiment. Medal obverse is worn and end of naming is worn. George Francis was born in 1862.


East and West Africa Medal  Sierra Leone 1898-99   2426 PTE. F. BENNETT. 1/W.I.R.    £300  
1st Battalion, West India Regiment. Frederick Bennett was born in Cornwall, Jamaica and enlisted September 1897, aged 20. To Africa 4 January 1898. He was invalided from Sierra Leone suffering with "valvular disease of the heart" and discharged 13 September 1898.


Africa General Service Medal  Somaliland 1902-04    P. MURPHY, A.B., H.M.S. HIGHFLYER    £250
Patrick Murphy was born in Cork in 1881 and joined the navy November 1897. Served on Highflyer from 1900 to 1903. Served through WWI and in October 1917 was posted to the Q Ship, HMS Candytuft. She was torpedoed by U39 18th November 1917 and drifted ashore in Algeria. Most of the crew were rescued by a French trawler. Murphy's papers state "Commended on the loss of Candytuft." London Gazette 30 June 1919 he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, also entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Transferred to the Royal Fleet Reserve March 1923.


East and West Africa Medal  1895-6  2828 Sepoy Allah Din 19th Punjab Infy.  MWELE    SOLD


East and Central Africa Medal  1898    PTE: ADDEN BORAN.   SOLD
Roll shows just as named, pages signed by Commandant, 1st Bn Uganda Rifles. The Uganda Rifles were formed in 1893 from Sudanese recruits. In 1898 three companies were deployed to the Juba River region. 


East and Central Africa Medal  Uganda 1897-98   1768 PTE. NUR MUHAMMAD. 27/BO.L.INF.  SOLD
Roll confirms medal and clasp confirmed on roll. 27th Bombay Light Infantry.


Africa General Service Medal  N. Nigeria 1903   114 M.G.C. AKINOLA IBADAN. 2ND N.N. REGT.  £225
Machine Gun Carrier. Northern Nigeria Regiment.


Africa General Service Medal  Somaliland 1902-04/Jidballi   2381 SAPR. HAYAT MUHAMMAD. 17TH COY 3RD S. & M.  £150
3rd Company (Bombay) Sappers and Miners. Medal and clasps confirmed on roll.


Africa General Service Medal  Somaliland 1902-04/Jidballi   4049 SEPOY KHAZANA. 27/PUNJABIS   SOLD
Medal and clasps confirmed on roll.


British South Africa Company Medal (Rhodesia) Mashonaland 1897   CAPT. T.K. MONTGOMERY. SALISBURY FLD FCE.  £375
Medal confirmed on roll, but not the clasp.


British South Africa Company Medal (Rhodesia) Mashonaland 1897   LT. E. HARLAND 2ND HANTS. REGT.  £450
Medal renamed in large capital letters. Edwyn Harland attended Royal Military College 1891. Commanded a small detachment of 24 men of the Hampshire Regiment in the conflict. In the Boer War he was attached to the Rhodesia Regiment Mounted Infantry and was killed at Mafeking 16 May 1900.


Cape of Good Hope General Service Medal  Transkei   LIEUT. G.H. WHITLEY. C.T.VOL. ENG.  £450
Cape Town Volunteer Engineers. Medal and clasp confirmed on roll. In 1896 a G.H. Whitley wrote to his brother in Belfast, from Mafeking about the threat of war in South Africa. During the Boer War a George Herbert Whitley served as a Section Leader with the Imperial Bearer Corps, possibly the same man. Only 562 Transkei clasps issued.


Africa General Service Medal  Kenya   90 CONST. KITAN DU USANGI               £75
Police.

Africa General Service Medal  Kenya   23095543 PTE. P. MAYNE. GLOSTERS.  £125
Gloucestershire Regiment.