SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS
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AFRICA GENERAL SERVICE 1902-56, 1 clasp, S. Nigeria 1905-06 (Captain B. D. MacCulloch, S.N. Regt.), good very fine
£500-600
Bertram Douglas MacCulloch was born in March 1877 and appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th Dragoon Guards direct from the
Royal Military College in February 1897. Exchanging into the 16th Lancers in the rank of Lieutenant in October 1899, he was advanced
to Captain in December 1901 and subsequently gained an appointment in the South Nigeria Regiment.
And it was in this capacity that he joined the 1905-06 punitive expedition under Brevet Major J. M. Trenchard, Royal Scots Fusiliers
and Captain G. T. Mair, Royal Field Artillery, an operation mounted in response to the particularly unpleasant murder of Dr. Stewart in
the Oswerri District, an incident summarised by Richard Magor in his Africa General Service Medals, from which the following extracts
have been taken:
‘This medical officer was new to Nigeria and was travelling alone through the bush on his bicycle and lost his way. Accounts vary as to
what happened. Some say Stewart was murdered as he slept, others that he was captured, trussed up naked and carried alive from
village to village with bits being cut off as ‘juju’ until finally he was decapitated and eaten. All however agree that his body was cut up
into small pieces and distributed around for consumption as a fetish. All those who ate a piece of Dr. Stewart would henceforth be
released from the white man’s domination and protected from any harm from a European ... There was severe fighting which did not
really end until those responsible for Stewart’s murder were captured, summarily tried and hanged ... Dr. Stewart’s skull and bones,
except for the hands and left leg, were eventually surrendered and sent to Calabar for burial.’
Trenchard and Mair received D.S.Os, while for his own part MacCulloch qualified for the relevant Medal & clasp (accompanying roll
verification refers) and returned home on sick leave in August 1906. Two years later, after fracturing a leg in two places in a polo
accident, he reverted to half-pay.
Having then been placed on the Reserve of Officers, MacCulloch was recalled on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914 and went
out to France as a Captain in the 16th Lancers in early October 1914, official records confirming that he was hit in his previously
injured leg by a shell splinter ‘or something’ at Bailleul on 1 November 1914. No doubt as a result, he was transferred to No. 22
Remount Squadron in March 1915, in the temporary rank of Major, and remained similarly employed until ordered home that July as a
result of an altercation with a French cab driver at Marseilles, MacCulloch striking the latter with his whip - and apparently a
Gendarme who arrived on the scene shortly afterwards.
In July 1916, MacCulloch was embarked for East Africa for command of a Mounted Infantry unit, but owing to a shortage of horses,
ended up as second-in-command of the 1st Battalion, 3rd King’s African Rifles, an unhappy appointment due to his old leg injury and,
it would appear, some disagreements over patrol work. He once more returned home, where he would appear to have rejoined the
16th Lancers, and was eventually placed on the Retired List in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the 1920s. He died in Brighton
February 1940.
200
AFRICA GENERAL SERVICE 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (22837703 Fus. M. P. Lynskey, R. Innisks.) corrections to surname, very
fine £60-80
201
TIBET 1903-04, silver, no clasp (4961 Lce. Naick. Shah Zamir, 20th Infy.) good very fine £250-300
202
TIBET 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (207 Driver Gulab, 9th Mule Corps) claw tightened/refixed, some scratches to obverse
left field, minor edge bruising, very fine £240-280
203
NATAL 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Tpr. H. E. Garbett, Natal Carbineers) minor contact marks, good very fine £100-140
204
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (Bugler Lalu, 55th Rifles) minor contact marks, good
very fine £60-80
205
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (14 A. L. Bowling, Rlys.) rank and first initial officially
corrected, nearly extremely fine £60-70
206
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1908-35 (2), 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (637 Buglr. Hira Singh, Sirmoor I.S. Sprs.); another, 1
clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (11833 Bglr. Palla Singh, 6-13 F.F. Rif.) good very fine (2) £60-80
207
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (2817300 Pte. J. McColl, Seaforth), edge bruise, very
fine £80-100
McColl was taken P.O.W. in the 1939-45 War and incarcerated in Stalag 344 at Lamsdorf.
208
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1908-35, 3 clasps, Mahsud 1919-20, Waziristan 1919-21, Waziristan 1921-24 (3660 Rfmn.
Bilbahadur Bhandari, 2-9 Grks.) contact marks, good fine £70-90
209
1914 STAR, with clasp (9529 Sjt. G. F. Elliott, R.F.A.); 1914-15 STAR (14267 Pte. S. Walker, R. Lanc. R.) reverse
additionally engraved, ‘Killed in Action June 7th 1917’; VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (Lieut. A. Withers) good very fine and
better (3) £70-90
Sutcliffe Walker was born in Barnoldwick, Yorkshire, and enlisted at Burnley, Lancashire. Serving with the 7th Battalion Royal
Lancaster Regiment, he was killed in action on 7 June 1917. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin
Gate) Memorial.
A. Withers, appointed a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, 1 July 1917. Lieutenant A. Withers was the Adjutant of the 54th Brigade, R.F.
A., February-October 1916. He served in Egypt, August 1915; Gallipoli, August-October 1915; Greek Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria,
European Turkey and the islands of the Aegean, October 1915-October 1916. France/Flanders, April-August 1917.
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