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Auction: 5012 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 528

The Historically Interesting Group of Nine to Colonel R. M. Feilden, Oxfordshire Light Infantry and Egyptian Army, Governor and Officer Commanding Bahr-El-Ghazal 1910-17 (a) Order of the British Empire, Commander´s (C.B.E.) breast Badge, Civil Division, first type, silver-gilt and enamel, extremely fine, in damaged, Garrard, London, case of issue (b) India General Service 1895-1902, two clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Lieut. & Adjutant R.M. Feilden 2nd Bn Oxf: Lt Infy) (c) Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt. 1/Oxf. L.I.) (d) British War Medal (Lt. Col.) (e)Turkey, Order of Osmanieh, breast Badge, silver, gilt and enamel, some enamel damage, with rosette on riband (f) Turkey, Order of Medjidieh, breast Badge, silver, gold and enamel, with rosette on riband (g) Khedive´s Sudan 1896-1908, one clasp, Nyam Nyam (El Bimbashi Feilden.) (h) Khedive´s Sudan 1910-22, one clasp, Nyima 1917-18, unnamed as issued, except where stated extremely fine, the group mounted ´cavalry style´ as originally worn, together with (i) Royal Humane Society, silver medal, successful (Lieut: R.M. Feilden. 23rd July, 1895.), extremely fine, with its top riband silver buckle (9) Estimate £ 2,000-3,000The group is offered with a quantity of interesting documents and photographs : -- Commission of R.M. Feilden, Gentleman, as Second Lieutenant, The Oxfordshire Light Infantry, dated 17.8.1892 -- Royal Humane Society, Silver Medal Bestowal Document dated 16.8.1895 ´for having on the 23rd July 1895 at great personal risk gone to the rescue of two ladies who were in imminent danger of drowning in the Sea at Hayburn Wyke, near Scarborough and whose lives he gallantly saved.´ -- Licence to Wear Document for the Order of Medjidieh Fourth Class, dated St. James´s 26.7.1906 -- United Grand Lodge of Freemasons of England, Certificate of Brother Randle Montague Feilden dated 14.1.1904 -- An interesting album of photographs, including many group portraits of members of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry in Bareilly, India -- A large quantity of loose photographs, mostly of military or local subjects in Bahr-el-Ghazal, Khartoum, Suakin and Port Sudan, including the Ceremonial Opening of the Port and Harbour of Port Sudan 1909 -- Sudan Notes and Records (Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of the Sudan), 7 vols. various dates 1950-1962 -- A quantity of Oxfordshire L.I. and Egyptian Army buttons, and some shoulder and collar insignia -- A typed Farewell Address from the Hellenic Community of Port Sudan to ´El Kaim R.M. Feilden Bey´ dated Port Sudan 18 March 1908 -- Invitation Card from the Governor General of the Sudan to ´El Kaim R.M. Feilden Bey´ requesting his presence at the Opening of the Port and Harbour of Port Sudan 1 April 1909 -- copy of Army Orders, Khartoum 11 September 1921, ´Farewell Orders´ on the retirement from the Egyptian Army of ´El Lewa R.M. Feilden Pasha´ -- Chronicle 1965, Chronicle of the 1st Green Jackets 43rd and 52nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, vol. LXVII, 1965, containing an obituary and photograph of Colonel Feilden C.B.E. London Gazette 3.6.1918 Colonel Randle Montague Feilden C.B.E. (1871-1965), fourth son of Sir William Leyland Feilden, Third Baronet of Feniscowles, County Lancaster, educated Charterhouse and Sandhurst; joined the 52 Regiment, The Oxfordshire Light Infantry 1892; Adjutant 1896-1900, served in the Mohmand and Tirah Expeditions 1897-98, and was involved in the action on 30.12.1898 when the withdrawing piquets were nearly overwhelmed by the Afridis; Captain 1900; served with the 43 Regiment in South Africa 1901-02 (Mentioned in Despatches 29.7.1902; Order of Osmanieh 1901); joined the Egyptian Army 1903; served in operations against Nyam Nyams, Sudan, 1904-05; Civil Administrator Port Sudan 1905-08 (Order of the Medjidieh 4th Class 1906); Assistant Civil Secretary, Sudan Government 1908-10; Major 1911; Governor and Officer Commanding Bahr-El-Ghazal Province and District 1910-17; commanded operations against Agadir (Agaakir) Dinkas, Sudan, 1913 (Order of the Medjidieh 3rd Class 1913); Lieutenant Colonel 1914 (Order of the Nile 3rd Class 1915 and Mentioned in Despatches 1914-18); Civil Secretary Sudan Government 1917-21 and commanded the Nyma Patrol 1917-18; promoted Pasha in Egyptian Army 1920 (Order of the Nile 2nd Class 1921); Lieutenant Colonel Feilden retired in 1921. For Colonel Feilden´s Egyptian and Turkish awards see Lots 440, 441 and 524. For his swords see lots 110 and 111.

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