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The Sudan O.B.E. group of ten awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Burges, Gloucestershire Regiment, the man who captured the famous Emir Osman Digna and who later became the Police Magistrate at Khartoum, being one of the first members of the Sudan Political Service
THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, top reverse arm inscribed ‘Captain F. Burges’; QUEEN’S SUDAN 1896-98 (Lt. F. Burges, E.A.); 1914-15 STAR (Capt. F. Burges, Glouc. R.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Capt. F. Burges); ORDER OF OSMANIEH, 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels; ORDER OF THE MEDJIDIE, 5th Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamel; KHEDIVE’S SUDAN 1896-1908, 2 clasps, Khartoum, Sudan 1899, unnamed; ORDER OF THE NILE, 2nd Class set of insignia, comprising neck badge and breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamels, the first eight mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (10)
£2000-2500 O.B.E. London Gazette 5 December 1919.
M.I.D. London Gazette 4 November 1898 (Omdurman - names omitted from Sirdar’s Omdurman Despatch of 30 September 1898); 9 December 1898 (recent operations in the Soudan).
Order of the Nile, 2nd Class London Gazette 28 March 1919. Order of Osmanieh, 4th Class London Gazette 22 March 1912. Order of the Medjidie, 4th Class London Gazette 5 April 1901.
Frank Burges was born at Broadway, Gloucestershire, on 29 November 1867, the son of Rev. Frank Burges, of Winterbourne Rectory. He was educated at Winchester, Magdalen College, Oxford, and R.M.C. Sandhurst. He was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Regiment on 21 September 1889, becoming Lieutenant on 1 July 1891. He was stationed in Nasirabad, India, with his regiment from 1892 until seconded to the Egyptian Army as a Bimbashi (Major) on 21 January 1898. He commanded the 18th Battalion, Egyptian Army, at the battle of Omdurman.
In his book Karari (a Sudanese account of the battle of Omdurman) Ismat Hasan Zulfo notes Burges counting skulls on the Omdurman battlefield [February 1899] and burying Dervish remains. He himself recounts counting about 7000 skulls.
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