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Auction archive: Lot number 73

King's African Rifles,

Military Medals
8 Jul 2003
Estimate
£0
Price realised:
£188
ca. US$305
Auction archive: Lot number 73

King's African Rifles,

Military Medals
8 Jul 2003
Estimate
£0
Price realised:
£188
ca. US$305
Beschreibung:

- seven photograph albums concerning the career of Captain G.R.King MC, 4th (Uganda) Bn, King's African Rifles mostly privately taken snapshots and one or two official photos, covering the period from 1916 with the battalion's embarkation at Kisumu through to his career with the Sudan Political Service up to the 1950's in Southern Sudan, including Abbysinian notables 1930's, Patrols at Mwele, 1916, wild life, big-game hunting, 25 Regimental Christmas cards including HQ Rhodesian Air Training Group RAF, Leicestershire Regiment, 4KAR, RAOC, Royal Fusiliers, a very rare example of Eastern Arab Corps (Sudan Defence Force), Deccan District HQ (1927), 20th Brownlow's Punjabis, also a regimental menu for Leicestershire Regiment 1923, ephemera including programs for King's Birthday Parade at Kampala, Uganda, 1926 and presentation of colours to 4KAR, Kampala, 1923, various postcards of German East Africa, Nile Steamers etc. and various photos including a good group of the Duke of York (later George VI) posing with native officers of 4th Bn.KAR all with medal groups and another of H.R.H. inspecting the same officers, photos of African village life and one of the Rudolf Patrol, 1931, showing troops of the Equatorial Corps of the Sudan Defence Force gathered around an aeroplane.

Auction archive: Lot number 73
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jul 2003
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, Knightsbridge Montpelier Street Knightsbridge London SW7 1HH Tel: +44 20 7393 3900 Fax : +44 20 7393 3905 info@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

- seven photograph albums concerning the career of Captain G.R.King MC, 4th (Uganda) Bn, King's African Rifles mostly privately taken snapshots and one or two official photos, covering the period from 1916 with the battalion's embarkation at Kisumu through to his career with the Sudan Political Service up to the 1950's in Southern Sudan, including Abbysinian notables 1930's, Patrols at Mwele, 1916, wild life, big-game hunting, 25 Regimental Christmas cards including HQ Rhodesian Air Training Group RAF, Leicestershire Regiment, 4KAR, RAOC, Royal Fusiliers, a very rare example of Eastern Arab Corps (Sudan Defence Force), Deccan District HQ (1927), 20th Brownlow's Punjabis, also a regimental menu for Leicestershire Regiment 1923, ephemera including programs for King's Birthday Parade at Kampala, Uganda, 1926 and presentation of colours to 4KAR, Kampala, 1923, various postcards of German East Africa, Nile Steamers etc. and various photos including a good group of the Duke of York (later George VI) posing with native officers of 4th Bn.KAR all with medal groups and another of H.R.H. inspecting the same officers, photos of African village life and one of the Rudolf Patrol, 1931, showing troops of the Equatorial Corps of the Sudan Defence Force gathered around an aeroplane.

Auction archive: Lot number 73
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jul 2003
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, Knightsbridge Montpelier Street Knightsbridge London SW7 1HH Tel: +44 20 7393 3900 Fax : +44 20 7393 3905 info@bonhams.com
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