THE SUDAN CAMPAIGN 1896-1908 15
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 history of the expedition under the pseudonym ‘An Officer’, he became Chief Engineer of an Army Corps in Salonika, until severely wounded, and Colonel Commandant R.E. 1932-41
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., Companion’s breast badge converted for neck wear; DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER, V.R., silver-gilt and enamels, minor chip to one reverse arm; ASHANTI STAR 1896, unnamed; QUEEN’S SUDAN 1896-98 (Lieut. H. L. Pritchard, R.E.); QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Belmont, Modder River (Capt: H. L. Pritchard, D.S.O., R.E.); KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt. H. L. Pritchard, D.S.O., R.E.); 1914 STAR, with clasp (Major H. L. Pritchard, D.S.O., R.E.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Brig. Gen. H. L. Pritchard); JUBILEE 1935; CORONATION 1937; GREEK MEDAL FOR MILITARY MERIT, 2nd Class; ORDER OF THE MEDJIDIE, 4th Class, silver, gold and enamel; KHEDIVE’S SUDAN 1896-1908, 3 clasps, Hafir, Sudan 1897, Khartoum, unnamed as issued, these last 13 on an old court mounting as worn; ORDER OF THE REDEEMER, 3rd Class neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, the last damaged at several points, otherwise very fine or better (16)
£7000-8000
D.S.O. London Gazette 15 November 1898: ‘In recognition of services in Egypt and the Soudan, including the battles of Atbara and Khartoum’.
C.M.G. London Gazette 1 January 1917. C.B. London Gazette 1 January 1923.
M.I.D. London Gazette 1896 (Ashanti); 2 November 1896 (Dongola); 30 September 1898 (Omdurman); 29 July 1902 (South Africa - Railways); 19 October 1914 (France); 17 February 1915 (France); 6 December 1916 (Greece - Salonika); 28 November 1917 (Greece - Salonika).
Order of the Medjidie, 4th Class London Gazette 2 March 1897: ‘In recognition of active and distinguished service before the enemy during the recent expedition to Dongola.’
Order of the Redeemer, 3rd Class London Gazette 9 November 1918.
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