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The C.M.G. group of ten awarded to Brigadier-General Malcolm Peake, Royal Artillery, who commanded an Egyptian Army artillery battery throughout the reconquest, later became responsible for the epic feat of clearing a channel through the swamps of the southern Sudan to Uganda, and went on to command the 29th Division artillery at the battle of the Somme - he was killed in action on Hill 70 while commanding the artillery of the 1st Army Corps
THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE, C.M.G., Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels; QUEEN’S SUDAN 1896-98 (Cpt. M. Peake, R.A.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Brig. Gen. M. Peake);CORONATION 1911 (Major M. Peake); ORDER OF OSMANIEH, 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels; ORDER OF LEOPOLD I, 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels; LEGION OF HONOUR, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, gilt and enamels, with rosette on ribbon; KHEDIVE’S SUDAN 1896-1908, 6 clasps, Firket, Hafir, Sudan 1897, The Atbara, Khartoum, Sudan 1899 (Captain Peake. R.A.); ORDER OF THE MEDJIDIE, 3rd Class neck badge, silver, gold and enamels, some minor enamel chips, otherwise good very fine or better (10)
£3500-4000 C.M.G. London Gazette 16 November 1900 (For services in Egypt).
M.I.D. London Gazette 2 November 1896 (Reconquest of Dongola Province); 25 January 1898 (Capture of Abu Hamed); 30 September 1898 (Omdurman); 4 June 1917. Order of the Medjidie, 4th Class London Gazette 27 September 1896. Order of the Medjidie, 3rd Class London Gazette 25 July 1905. Order of Osmanieh, 4th Class London Gazette 4 August 1900. Legion of Honour London Gazette 15 April 1916.
Malcolm Peake was born on 27 March 1865, the third son of Frederick Peake, of Burrough-on-the-Hill, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. Educated at Charterhouse, he was a Cadet at the Royal Military Academy from January 1883, and was commissioned in the Royal Artillery on 9 December 1884. He served in India and Malta before being attached to the Egyptian Army in July 1895. In Egypt he commanded a battery of Egyptian Artillery, and was involved in training the Egyptian gunners. He took a prominent part in the reconquest of Dongola, commanded No.1 Egyptian Battery in the action of Firket, and commanded all the Egyptian Artillery at the action of Hafir.
Peake’s Battery fired the first shot at the battle of the Atbara at 06.15 a.m., and his guns were hotly engaged at the battle of Omdurman. As part of MacDonald’s brigade his battery played a prominent part in repulsing the two Dervish assaults on the exposed brigade, firing case shot at 150 yards. As Brigadier Hector MacDonald observed, “It was hard work especially for the Artillery. In the first attack 2nd phase they fired from 1100 yards to case and in the 2nd attack 2nd phase 800 yards to case and were engaged thus for over 2 hours without ceasing, a tremendous physical strain on any set of men”.
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