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Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 21

A Fine Order of St. John Group of Three to Major J.H. Rivers, Royal Army Medical Corps a) The Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother´s breast Badge, silver and enamel, reverse engraved ´Captain John Herbert Rivers, R.A.M.C., 1901´ b) Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmania, Fourth Class breast Badge, 80mm including Star and Crescent suspension x 65mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, with rosette on ribbon c) Khedive´s Sudan 1896-1908, one clasp, Nyam-Nyam (Major J.H. Rivers. R.A.M.C.), nearly extremely fine, mounted as worn (3) Estimate £ 1,200-1,500 Turkey, Order of Osmania, Fourth Class London Gazette 3.4.1906 Major John Herbert Rivers, Royal Army Medical Corps ´In recognition of valuable services rendered to His Highness the Khedive of Egypt.´ Major John Herbert Rivers, (1869-1913), born Harlow, Essex; Appointed Surgeon-Lieutenant, January 1893; Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps, January 1896; Major, July 1904; seconded for service with the Egyptian Army, January 1899-January 1906, and served in the Sudan during 1905, taking part in the operations against the Nyam-Nyam tribes in the Bahr-el-Ghazai province on the Belgian Congo border, as part of a force comprising 18 British and 30 native officers, and 700 men (awarded Order of Osmania); retired, February 1911.

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