26th Jul, 2024 10:00

Collectors' and Interiors

 
Lot 9
 

9

A Victorian and Great War campaign and long service medal group, comprising a Queen's Sudan medal with Hafir and Sudan 1899 clasps, Khedive's Sudan Medal, Edward VII Army Long Service and Good Conduct medal, with 1914-15 Star, British War and Victory Medals to 703 Colour Serjeant / Quartermaster Serjeant Joseph S Fowler, 1st Grenadier Guards, later Quartermaster and Lieutenant, Northamptonshire Regiment, with cabinet card head-and-shoulders portrait of Fowler in uniform, a large portrait photograph of him in tropical dress, another of Fowler and two other Guards in tropical dress, and an annotated group photograph of Head Quarter Staff, Egyptian Army, Khartoum, Sudan, an Egypt and Sudan District Grand Lond embossed paper label, a Grenadier Guards Serjeants Club passbook and inscribed copies of the books "Our Sudan, Its Pyramids and Progress", by John Ward, 1905, and "History of the Raising of the 7th (Service) Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment" by Paget. [In Ward's work Fowler's house at Khartoum is identified by means of annotation on map page 125, he is photographed with Lady Wingate and others at Khartoum Palace on page 127, with further annotations elsewhere]

Sold for £1,800


 

A Victorian and Great War campaign and long service medal group, comprising a Queen's Sudan medal with Hafir and Sudan 1899 clasps, Khedive's Sudan Medal, Edward VII Army Long Service and Good Conduct medal, with 1914-15 Star, British War and Victory Medals to 703 Colour Serjeant / Quartermaster Serjeant Joseph S Fowler, 1st Grenadier Guards, later Quartermaster and Lieutenant, Northamptonshire Regiment, with cabinet card head-and-shoulders portrait of Fowler in uniform, a large portrait photograph of him in tropical dress, another of Fowler and two other Guards in tropical dress, and an annotated group photograph of Head Quarter Staff, Egyptian Army, Khartoum, Sudan, an Egypt and Sudan District Grand Lond embossed paper label, a Grenadier Guards Serjeants Club passbook and inscribed copies of the books "Our Sudan, Its Pyramids and Progress", by John Ward, 1905, and "History of the Raising of the 7th (Service) Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment" by Paget. [In Ward's work Fowler's house at Khartoum is identified by means of annotation on map page 125, he is photographed with Lady Wingate and others at Khartoum Palace on page 127, with further annotations elsewhere]