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The Richard Magor Collection of Medals Relating to India and Africa, and other Fine Awards The outstanding Boer War C.B., Great War C.B.E., Nandi 1895-96 operations D.S.O. group of fifteen awarded to Brigadier-General G. G. Cunningham, Derbyshire Regiment, late Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry and onetime attached Uganda Rifles and West African Rifles, whose extensive campaigning in Africa led to numerous wounds, ‘mentions’ and a quite unique combination of medals and clasps The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military), Companion’s neck badge, converted from breast wear, silver-gilt and enamel; The Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military), 1st type, Commander’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with tailor’s copy upper suspension brooch; Egypt 1882-89, 2 clasps, Toski 1889, The Nile 1884-85 (Lieut., 2/D.C.L.I.), contemporary re-engraved naming; Central Africa 1891-98, no clasp (Major, Derby R.); East and West Africa 1887-1900, 2 clasps, Niger 1897, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (Bvt. Maj., D.S.O., Derby R.), minor official correction to rank; Royal Niger Company’s Medal 1886-97, 1 clasp, Nigeria 1886-1897, silver (Brevet Lieut.-Col., D.S.O., Derbys. Regt.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (Brig. Genl., C.B., D.S.O., Staff); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Brig. Genl., C.B., D.S.O., Staff); British War and Victory Medals (Brig. Gen.); French Legion of Honour, Commander’s neck badge, gold and enamel; Turkish Order of Osmanieh, 4th class badge, gold, silver-gilt and enamel; Turkish Order of the Medjidie, 5th class badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; Khedive’s Star 1882 the first with refixed centre-pieces and badly chipped central surround wreaths, the Legion of Honour chipped in places and with usual arm point damage, so too the Osmanieh and Medjidie badges, otherwise generally very fine and better (15) £6000-8000 Footnote C.B. London Gazette 19 April 1901: ‘In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa.’ C.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘For services rendered in connection with the War.’ D.S.O. London Gazette 3 November 1896: ‘In recognition of services during the recent operations against slave-trading Arabs in the Central African Protectorate.’ Note: On the 10 November 1896, The London Gazette published a correction, stating that Cunningham’s D.S.O. was actually for operations in the Uganda Protectorate. Mention in Despatches London Gazette 19 September 1882 (Kassassin); 2 November 1882 (Egypt); 6 September 1889 (Toski); 11 June 1897 (Niger); 29 December 1899 (Sierra Leone); 16 April 1901 (South Africa); 20 December 1918 (France). Note: Cunningham was additionally ‘mentioned’ for his services in the Unyoro Expedition of 1895 and in the Nandi Expedition of 1895-96, but neither of these were published in The London Gazette. Legion of Honour London Gazette 14 July 1919. George Glencairn Cunningham was born in Rangoon in July 1862, the second son of Major William Cunningham, Madras Staff Corps. Educated at Wellington College and at Sandhurst, young George was commissioned into the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in October 1881. Quickly seeing action out in Egypt in the following year, where he was present with the 2nd Battalion at the engagements at El Magfar, Tel-el-Mahuta and Kassassin, Cunningham was severely wounded in the latter action by guns shots to the shoulder and thigh. Notwithstanding the first of these wounds, he fought on until felled by the second one, a display of dogged determination and courage that received appropriate recognition in Sir Garnet Wolseley’s despatch of September 1882, written on the back of Major-General Graham’s report from Kassassin: ‘The conduct of the soldiers of all arms was excellent, and many gallant deeds were done throughout the action. Two recent instances have come to my notice o