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Auction archive: Lot number 43

An Egypt and Sudan D.C.M. group of three

Estimate
£2,800 - £3,200
ca. US$3,496 - US$3,995
Price realised:
£2,600
ca. US$3,246
Auction archive: Lot number 43

An Egypt and Sudan D.C.M. group of three

Estimate
£2,800 - £3,200
ca. US$3,496 - US$3,995
Price realised:
£2,600
ca. US$3,246
Beschreibung:

An Egypt and Sudan D.C.M. group of three awarded to Corporal, later Colour Sergeant, W. Parker Scots Guards, for gallantry at Abu Klea, 17 January 1885, during which battle he was shot through the chest Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (5325. C ... arker . 1st. Scots Gds. ... 1885.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 3 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (5325. Pte. W. Parker 1/Scots ...); Khedive’s Star 1884-6, reverse impressed ‘5325 S. Gds.’, with additional erasure, heavy pitting and edge bruising, worn, therefore fair (3) £2800-3200 Footnote D.C.M. submitted to the Queen 25 August 1885 (Army Order 109 of 1885). William Parker was born in Kelso, Roxborough in 1862 and attested for the Scots Guards at Glasgow on 6 May 1881. He served with the Scots Guards in Egypt in from July to November 1882, and again during the Sudan campaign of 1884-85, as part of a detachment of 6 Officers and 80 men with the Guards Heavy Camel Regiment in the Gordon Relief Expedition. Promoted Corporal on 3 March 1883, and appointed Lance Sergeant on 24 October 1884, he was present at the Battle of Abu Klea, 17 January 1885, when he left the protective cover of the zeriba in order to have a clear field of fire. As related in Cassell’s History of the War in the Soudan: ‘Lance-Sergeant Parker, 1st Battalion Scots Guards, was shot through the chest shortly after leaving the zeriba on the 17th January. He was attended to by the doctor, but at once fell into the ranks again, refusing to get into the cacolet until compelled to do so by weakness and loss of blood.’ Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, Parker was bestowed with his decoration by H.M. Queen Victoria at Windsor on 25 November 1886. Despite his wounds he remained in the service for a further decade, being advanced to Colour Sergeant on 21 June 1890, before taking his discharge on medical grounds on 31 January 1896, after 14 years and 271 days’ with the Colours. Note: The Khedive’s Star is probably not that originally awarded to Parker- he should of course have received the Khedive’s Star dated 1882- and there is evidence of another Scots Guardsman’s service number having been erased from the reverse, with Parker’s own number subsequently added by a different hand; it is though undoubtedly the Star worn by Colour Sergeant Parker

Auction archive: Lot number 43
Auction:
Datum:
8 Dec 2016
Auction house:
Dix Noonan Webb
16 Bolton St, Mayfair
London, W1J 8BQ
United Kingdom
auctions@dnw.co.uk
+44 (0)20 7016 1700
+44 (0)20 7016 1799
Beschreibung:

An Egypt and Sudan D.C.M. group of three awarded to Corporal, later Colour Sergeant, W. Parker Scots Guards, for gallantry at Abu Klea, 17 January 1885, during which battle he was shot through the chest Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (5325. C ... arker . 1st. Scots Gds. ... 1885.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 3 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (5325. Pte. W. Parker 1/Scots ...); Khedive’s Star 1884-6, reverse impressed ‘5325 S. Gds.’, with additional erasure, heavy pitting and edge bruising, worn, therefore fair (3) £2800-3200 Footnote D.C.M. submitted to the Queen 25 August 1885 (Army Order 109 of 1885). William Parker was born in Kelso, Roxborough in 1862 and attested for the Scots Guards at Glasgow on 6 May 1881. He served with the Scots Guards in Egypt in from July to November 1882, and again during the Sudan campaign of 1884-85, as part of a detachment of 6 Officers and 80 men with the Guards Heavy Camel Regiment in the Gordon Relief Expedition. Promoted Corporal on 3 March 1883, and appointed Lance Sergeant on 24 October 1884, he was present at the Battle of Abu Klea, 17 January 1885, when he left the protective cover of the zeriba in order to have a clear field of fire. As related in Cassell’s History of the War in the Soudan: ‘Lance-Sergeant Parker, 1st Battalion Scots Guards, was shot through the chest shortly after leaving the zeriba on the 17th January. He was attended to by the doctor, but at once fell into the ranks again, refusing to get into the cacolet until compelled to do so by weakness and loss of blood.’ Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, Parker was bestowed with his decoration by H.M. Queen Victoria at Windsor on 25 November 1886. Despite his wounds he remained in the service for a further decade, being advanced to Colour Sergeant on 21 June 1890, before taking his discharge on medical grounds on 31 January 1896, after 14 years and 271 days’ with the Colours. Note: The Khedive’s Star is probably not that originally awarded to Parker- he should of course have received the Khedive’s Star dated 1882- and there is evidence of another Scots Guardsman’s service number having been erased from the reverse, with Parker’s own number subsequently added by a different hand; it is though undoubtedly the Star worn by Colour Sergeant Parker

Auction archive: Lot number 43
Auction:
Datum:
8 Dec 2016
Auction house:
Dix Noonan Webb
16 Bolton St, Mayfair
London, W1J 8BQ
United Kingdom
auctions@dnw.co.uk
+44 (0)20 7016 1700
+44 (0)20 7016 1799
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