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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 217

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel P.E. Wylie, Kings Own Scottish Borderers, Who Commanded the Arab Battalion of the Camel Corps
British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. P.E. Wylie); Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, Fourth Class breast Badge, by Lattes, Cairo, 74mm including suspension x 52mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, silver marks on reverse, rosette on ribbon; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, no clasp, unnamed as issued, good very fine or better (4)

Egypt, Order of the Nile, Fourth Class London Gazette 22.4.1921 Captain Percy Edward Wylie
'In recognition of valuable services rendered.'

Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Edward Wylie, born Calcutta, August 1884, and educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 23.4.1904; promoted Lieutenant, 21.11.1906; employed with the Egyptian Army, 1.10.1911, and served in the Kassala District of Sudan, October 1911 to December 1912, and the Blue Nile District, January to December 1913; promoted Captain, 19.2.1914; served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during the Great War, and in the Sudan as Officer Commanding the Arab Battalion Camel Corps, in operations in Eastern Sudan against poachers and slavers; took part in the Darfur operations, 1916; retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, 26.8.1922; died in Cape Town, 10.3.1953.

Provenance: Woodliffe Collection, May 2011.


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