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The group of five medals awarded to Major (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) R. H. W. Brewis, 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, late Oxfordshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action on 18 December 1914 Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Lt., 1/R. War. R.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Major, R. War. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (Lieut., 1st Royal Warwickshire Regt.); Memorial Plaque (Robert Henry Watkin Brewis), first and last with edge bruising and some contact marks, very fine and better (6) £2000-2500 Footnote M.I.D. London Gazette 22 June 1915. Robert Henry Watkin Brewis was born on 29 September 1873, the eldest son of Mr and Mrs Brewis of Ibstone, Oxfordshire. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry (Militia) on 24 March 1892; he was advanced to Lieutenant in January 1894. Transferring then to the Regular Army, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regimet on 28 August 1895, being promoted to Lieutenant in April 1898. With the 1st battalion he served in the Sudan Expedition and was present at the battles of Atbara and Omdurman. Promoted to Captain in March 1900, he served as Adjutant, July 1907-July 1910. In April 1911 he was appointed Adjutant and Quartermaster (graded as Staff Captain) at the Staff College. In December 1912 he was promoted to Major. With the onset of war he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war. There, with the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and in command of the 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, he was killed in action on 18 December 1914, aged 41 years, whilst leading an attack on the German trenches at Bois Grenier before Le Maisnil. In the attack, of the 22 officers and 939 other ranks mustered, Lieutenant-Clonel Brewis and eight other officers were killed, two were wounded and one missing, and the total casualties to the other ranks neared 300. General Capper in a Divisional Order congratulated the battalion on their ‘gallant effort, which though unsuccessful had been of great use and service to the general plans of the Allied Army’. Lieutenant-Colonel Brewis was originally buried in the Fleurbaise Churchyard and later reburied at Sailly-sur-la-Lys Churchyard, near Armentieres. Sold with a quantity of copied photographs, copied letters, newspaper cuttings and documents and other copied research. Amongst them is a copied letter from a brother officer to Mrs Brewis of 86 Cromwell Road, London, S.W.7, ‘... On December 19th the Germans allowed us a short time to collect our dead from off their wire. Lt. Col. Strevens M.C. or lieut. as he was then found Major Brewis’ body on their wire & was able to bring it to our trenches. He was the only body the Germans allowed us to bring in. The rest were buried as they fell. We were able to carry his body back to the Regimental transport and he was buried with as full military honours as was possible in Fleurbaise churchyard ....’ The five medals in a wooden glass-fronted case; the Plaque and Memorial Scroll in a matching wooden glass-fronted case. Note: glass not suitable for posting.