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Auction: 4004 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 197

Three: Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arthuer Leetham, 20th Hussars Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated, two clasps, The Nile 1884-85, Suakin 1885 (Lieut. A. Leetham 20th Hussars); Khedive's Star 1884-6; Coronation 1902; contact marks to first medal, fine or better, together with related group of six miniature awards including the Royal Victorian Order and the Order of St. Michael and St. George, both groups mounted as originally worn (9) Estimate £ 300-350 K.C.V.O. London Gazette 3.6.1924 Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Leetham C.M.G. C.M.G. London Gazette3.6.1918 Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Leetham, Knt., Ret., R.E., Spec. Res. Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arthur Leetham, K.C.V.O, C.M.G.(1859-1933), born Hull; joined West Norfolk Militia 1877; 20th Hussars 1880; 13th Hussars, Sudan Expedition 1885-1886; Royal Monmouth Engineers, 1898; Private Secretary to Under Secretary of State for War, 1900-02; attached to Personal Staff of the Secretary of State for War 1914-18, and for some time served as Personal Assistant to Lord Kitchener (Kt. 1914; C.M.G. 1918; K.C.V.O., 1924).

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