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Auction: 16003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 3

A 1920 C.B.E. Group of Ten to Edward Smyth Crispin, A Civil Surgeon During the Boer War, Present During the Bahr-El-Ghazal Expedition 1900-02 and Darfur Expedition 1916, Director of the Sudan Medical Department 1915-22, Agent to Lord Montagu of Beaulieu and Who Finally Served as an Air Raid Warden During the Second War in His Sixties
a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Civil Division, Commander's (C.B.E.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel
b) Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Civ. Surg. E.S. Crispin)
c) 1914-15 Star (E.S. Crispin)
d) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (E.S. Crispin)
e) Defence Medal
f) Khedive's Sudan 1896-1908, one clasp, Bahr-El-Ghazal 1900-02, unnamed as issued
g) Khedive's Sudan 1910-22, one clasp, Darfur 1916, clasp loose on riband, unnamed as issued
h) Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, Third Class neck Badge, 90mm including crown suspension x 65mm, silver and enamel
i) Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmania, Fourth Class breast Badge, 85mm including Star and Crescent suspension x 65mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, with rosette on ribbon, lacquered, good very fine, originally housed in a glazed and gilt presentation case, by Spink & Son, London, this provided with the Lot if desirous to the purchaser (10)

C.B.E. London Gazette 24.9.1920 Edward Smyth Crispin, Esq., Director, Soudan Medical Department, and Member of Governor-General's Council

M.I.D. London Gazette 25.10.1916 Doctor E.S. Crispin, Sudan Headquarters

M.I.D. London Gazette 5.6.1919 Mr E.S. Crispin



Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, Third Class London Gazette 6.11.1917 Edward Smyth Crispin, Esq., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.

Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmania, Fourth Class London Gazette 28.6.1909 Edward Smyth Crispin, Esq., M.R.C.S., Assistant Director of the Soudan Medical Department, Khartoum

Edward Smyth Crispin, C.B.E., born at 6 Melbury Terrace, Marylebone, December 1874, the son of Alfred Trevor Crispin; educated at Bradfield College and King's College, qualifying in 1898; served as a volunteer Civil Surgeon during the Boer War, reportedly taken Prisoner of War and earning the medal with three clasps; served upon the Bahr-El- Ghazal Expedition, a party into the virtually unknown Bahr-el-Ghazal region under Miralai Sparkes Bey. The party consisted of five British officers and two British sergeants, 11 Egyptian officers, an interpreter, a clerk, 84 regulars, 266 irregulars and 216 wives and children. They also took 100 men and women rescued from slavery in Omdurman to be returned to their native tribes. The expedition left Khartoum on 29 November 1900 heading south on the White Nile, boarded on three steamers (Zafir, Hafir and Tawfikieh); appointed to the Sudan Medical Service, as Principle Medical Officer to the Egyptian Army, 1902; appointed Ministry of Quarantine Officer during the construction of Port Sudan, 1904-06; Assistant Director of Medical Department, Sudan, 1909; married Edith Walker Wright, 7.10.1912, who died in childbirth in Port Sudan, 22.2.1913; Director of Medical Department, Sudan, 1915-22, also serving as President of the Central Sanitary Board; served during the Great War aboard a Hospital Ship during the Gallipoli Campaign; present in the Lines of Communication during the Darfur Expedition 1916, earning a Mention in the Despatches and being awarded the Order of the Nile, Third Class; appointed to be a member of the Governor General's Council, 1919; retired, 1922, having completed over twenty years' service in total; married his second wife, Evelyn Cadogan (widow of Colonel Cadogan), 1926; listed as an Agent to Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, 1926; Evelyn left him and married Lord O'Hagan, 1935; served as an Air Raid Warden in London during the Second War, 1940-42; Crispin died at sea coming home from South Africa aboard the S.S. Warwick Castle, 12.3.1958. Crispin was buried at sea, his obituary being published in the British Medical Journal, 29.3.1958.

Crispin's work The Prevention and Treatment of Disease in the Tropics. A handbook for officials and travellers compiled chiefly for the use of officials in the Sudan, was published by Charles Griffin in 1912.

A Special Collection of 54 images taken during the construction of Port Sudan, South Sudan and Egypt by Crispin are in the collection of Durham University Library [Collection Code: GB 0033 SAD]

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Sale 16003 Notices
'The Lot is also now offered with two original photographs of the recipient. The first is c.1910 and features the recipient in a tropical setting, wearing white Service Dress and the Queen's South Africa Medal with three clasps, the Turkish Order of Osmania and the Khedive's Sudan Medal 1896-1908 with one clasp. The recipient's family record confirms service as "Civil Surgeon and Honorary Bimbashi, Egyptian Army, Khedives Sudan Medal 1896-1908 with Bahr el Ghazal 1900-02 bar." It has been broug