GROUPS AND SINGLE DECORATIONS FOR GALLANTRY
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A Great War ‘Egypt operations’ C.B.E., D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. V. Bagshawe, Royal
Army Medical Corps
THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel;
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar (substitute ribbon) some enamel
damage to reverse wreath; 1914-15 STAR (Major, R.A.M.C.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.);
EGYPT, ORDER OF THE NILE, 3rd Class neck badge by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, good very fine (6) £1100-1300
C.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘... for valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in Egypt’.
D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1916.
M.I.D. London Gazette 21 June 1916, 6 July 1917, 5 June 1919.
Order of the Nile Edinburgh Gazette 16 January 1920.
Herbert Vale Bagshawe was born in Uppingham, Rutland, on 11 August 1874. Commissioned a Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. in
September 1902, he attained the rank of Major in September 1914. During the war he was Assistant Director of Medical Services, G.H.
Q. Egyptian Expeditionary Force, October 1916. For his many services in the Egyptian theatre of war he was awarded the C.B.E., D.S.
O., the Order of the Nile and the Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel (London Gazette 3 June 1918), and was three times mentioned in
despatches. Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1924, he was placed on Retired Pay in 1929. Lieutenant-Colonel Bagshawe died in
Hastings, Sussex, on 17 March 1962. Sold with copied gazette extracts and other research.
788
An interesting inter-war C.B.E., K.P.M. group of three awarded to Inspector-General C. W. Duncan, Nigeria Police,
late British Guiana, Mauritius and Malta Police
THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, in
Garrard & Co., London case of issue; KING’S POLICE MEDAL, G.V.R., 1st issue (Claude Woodruff Duncan, Insp. Gen.,
Southern Prov. Nigeria Pol.); JUBILEE 1935, together with a ‘Martinez Challenge Shield’ prize award, the reverse engraved,
‘1909, Won by British Guiana, Dist. Insp. C. Duncan, B.G. Police’, silver, 38mm., generally extremely fine (4) £650-750
C.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1930.
K.P.M. London Gazette 1 January 1920.
Claude Woodruff Duncan was originally appointed a Clark in the Government Secretary’s Office in British Guiana in May 1899, but
transferred to the local police as a Sub-Inspector in March 1901, in which year he returned to the U.K. to attend the School of Musketry
at Hythe - he would also return home in 1905 to attend the School of Instruction at Chelsea Barracks. Back in British Guiana, he was
appointed an Acting Country Inspector in January 1908, passed in Hindi in 1909, and, interestingly, led special expeditions to the
Venezuela frontier at Wenamu in late 1910 and the summer of 1911. Joining the Mauritius Police in the rank of Deputy Inspector-
General in September 1912, Duncan was advanced to Acting Inspector-General, and Superintendent of Prisons, in November 1914.
He next transferred to Malta in the summer of 1916, where he served as Commissioner of Police and, from October 1917, also as
Inspector of Prisons, his K.P.M. being gazetted shortly after his subsequent transferral to the Nigeria Police in 1919 - indeed he actually
received the award at a special parade of the 4th Nigeria Regiment and Police on the race course at Lagos. Duncan remained similarly
employed as Inspector-General of Police in Nigeria (Southern Provinces), and as Director of Prisons, until his retirement in 1935, when
he settled at Crail, Fife, where he died in July 1945. With a folder of copied research.
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