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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 340

A C.M.G. pair awarded to Colonel M. T. Sale, Royal Engineers

The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s breast Badge, gold and enamel, with swivel ring and straight bar suspension, complete with gold buckle on ribbon; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Bhootan (Lieut. M. T. Sale. Royal Engrs.), good very fine (2)

C.M.G. London Gazette 8 February 1881. ‘Captain Matthew Townsend Sale, R.E., Her Majesty’s Commissioner for the settlement of the Montenegrin Frontier.’

Matthew Townsend Sale was born on 29 July 1841 and was educated privately and at Rugby. Appointed Lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers on 1 July 1861, he served in the Bhootan campaign, 1864-65 and retired as a Captain on 29 July 1898, having also been sent on a Special Mission to West Africa in 1875.

Having been awarded his C.M.G. during the years 1882-83 he was in command of the Royal Engineers at Newport, Isle of Wight, and in the latter year was appointed Instructor of Field Works at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham, a post which he held until 1887. He joined the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1873 as an Associate, and was elected a Member in 1889. From 1887-1906 he was Superintendent of Building Works at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. Retired in 1906, he lived at Ramsgate from 1908 and died at 19 Royal Crescent on 30 August 1913, leaving a wife and three daughters; sold together with a fine portrait photograph of Captain Sale in uniform, contained in a oval gilt wooden frame, 205 x 152mm.

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Sold for
£1,300

Starting price
£1100