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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 133

East and West Africa 1887-1900, one clasp, Witu 1890 (Sub-Lieut. E.D. Ogilvie, R.N. H.M.S. Boadicea.), suspension mount slightly bent, nearly very fine

Lieutenant Edward David Ogilvie (1867-1936), born Australia, 1867; joined Royal Navy as Midshipman, 1880; Acting Sub-Lieutenant, 1887; service included in H.M.S. Boadicea, 1890-1891; served as Acting Flag Lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund Fremantle, C-in-C. East Indies Station, August 1887-November 1890; during the latter period he served as Orderly Officer to Fremantle for the Witu 1891 Expedition, 17th-27th October 1890; he was Mentioned in Fremantle's Despatch for the expedition (London Gazette 6.1.1891), 'I should like to mention the names of Sub-Lieutenants Edward D. Ogilvie and Frederick W. Dean who acted as Orderly Officers to myself and Captain The Hon. A.G. Curzon-Howe respectively, both of whom were most zealous'; Lieutenant, January 1891; he went with Fremantle, when he was appointed C-in-C China Station 1892, and in 1895 he service was recognised by 'appreciation expressed at report of Japanese operations against Wei-hai-Wei, when he accompanied Japanese Army' (Service Papers refer); in April 1895, illness affected Ogilvie as Fremantle reported 'generally to my satisfaction, an intelligent officer & good signalman, occasionally worse for liquor recently, which I attribute to weakness after a severe attack of typhoid fever, & trust only temporary' (ibid); unfortunately the warning was not heeded, and on 16.7.1897 Ogilvie was court martialled and severely reprimanded due to his abuse of alcohol.

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