SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS
The paper clipping reads: ‘Gordon Memorial Fund - Through the courtesy of the Egyptian Government, search was made to see if any of the notes issued by General Gordon during the siege of Khartoum had reached and been preserved in Cairo.
Some were found and the Prime Minister has presented them to the Governor-General, who intends disposing of them for the benefit of the Gordon Memorial Fund.
.... Anyone who wishes to obtain possession of one or more of these notes should apply to the Secretary, Gordon Memorial Fund, at the Palace, Khartoum, or care of Sudan Government London Office .....’
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EAST ANDWEST AFRICA 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1891-2 (E. T. Chiffers, Ord., H.M.S. Racer) minor edge bruising, good very fine £180-220
EAST AND WEST AFRICA 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1897-98 (1388 Drmr. Mama Wongara, 4. G.C. Constby.) very fine £160-200 fine
With copied roll extract which shows him listed as a ‘Bandsman’. EAST ANDWEST AFRICA 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (816 Pte. T. N. Williams, 2/W.I.R.) edge bruising, very
£120-160 EAST AND WEST AFRICA 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (3545 Pte. C. A. Robinson. 2/W.I.R.) good very fine EAST AND WEST AFRICA 1887-1900, 2 clasps, 1892, 1893-94 (2873 Drumr. A. Martin, 1/W.I. Rgt.) very fine
£180-200 £220-260
BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY MEDAL 1890-97, reverse undated, 2 clasps, Mashonaland 1890, Rhodesia 1896 (Gnr. McLachlan, A. - Pioneers) minor edge bruising, otherwise toned, good very fine and scarce
£1600-1800
Alexander McLachlan was born at St Helena Bay, Malmesbury District, Cape Colony, on 14 August 1863. He attested into the Pioneer Corps as a Trooper on 18 March 1890, and was appointed to ‘C’ Troop on 27 March, serving as a Gunner during the 1890 operations. After the disbandment of the Pioneer Corps he prospected in the Mazoe Valley and, around 1894 worked on the Beira Railway. He at one time drove the Salisbury-Umtali coach and later worked for Rhodesia Railways, living in Eastern District, Rhodesia. During the operations in Rhodesia in 1896 he served as a Lieutenant in the Salisbury Field Force. He left Rhodesia in 1931 and retired to a farm near Malmesbury, owned by a cousin, Mr Blankenburg. He married Joanna von Wiese in Rhodesia but had no issue. Alexander McLachlan died at Malmesbury in 1938.
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BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANYMEDAL 1890-97, reverse Matabeleland 1893, 1 clasp, Mashonaland 1897 (Trpr. A. W. Kjelstrom. Victoria C.) extremely fine
£300-400
348 Corporal A. W. Kjelstrom, B.S.A. Police, served in Masonaland 1890 but did not claim his 1890 medal and clasp when it was authorised in 1926. He received the medal for Matabeleland 1893 but is not entitled to the clasp for Mashonaland 1897, which he may have had fitted to represent his earlier Mashonaland service.
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INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (4271 Pte. W. Ross, 1st Bn. Devon: Regt.) official correction to surname, good very fine
£100-120
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (2781 Pte. F. Cooper, 2d Bn. K.O. York. Lt. Infy.) good very fine
QUEEN’S SUDAN 1896-98 (4415 Pte. J. Spackman 1/Gren: Gds.) contact marks, nearly very fine QUEEN’S SUDAN 1896-98, unnamed, good very fine
KHEDIVE’S SUDAN 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum, unnamed, minor edge bruising, very fine KHEDIVE’S SUDAN 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum, unnamed as issued, good very fine KHEDIVE’S SUDAN 1896-1908, 2 clasps, Khartoum, Hafir, unnamed as issued, nearly extremely fine
£100-140 £160-180 £160-180 £100-140 £120-160 £180-200
136 QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, no clasp (3540 Pte. J. Law, 1/R. Sussex Regt.) slight edge bruising, very fine £50-70
With copied roll extracts, showing variously, entitlement to the clasp ‘Cape Colony’, or to the clasps ‘Cape Colony’, ‘Transvaal’ and ‘South Africa 1901’; listed as ‘invalided’; also shown listed for the King’s South Africa Medal with 2 clasps, but the roll later amended ‘Not entitled - Medal retd. to Woolwich’ - as a consequence of his service in South Africa, 2 April 1900-5 August 1901 and 23-31 May 1902.
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