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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 230

Three: Lieutenant C. Wightwick, Nigeria Regiment

1914-15 Star (Lieut. C. Wightwick.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lieut. C. Wightwick.), good very fine (3)

M.I.D. London Gazette 31 May 1916 (Cameroons).

Claude Wightwick was born on 22 November 1881 at Tonbridge and was educated at Tonbridge and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Joining the Colonial Service he was appointed an Assistant Resident in Nigeria in 1906, being made 3rd Class Resident in 1913. During the Great War he served in the Cameroons from 23 August 1914 with the 2nd Nigeria Regiment, West African Frontier Force. He was confirmed a Captain in The Colonial List in 1916 and had his Medals and emblems for his 'mention' issued to Highbury, Staplehurst, Kent. A 1st Class Resident by 1919, he was Senior Resident, North Nigeria from 1923-26, with a salary of £1200 per annum plus £240 duty pay. Wightwick gains a number of worthy mentions in Up Against it in Nigeria, published under the pen name 'Langa Langa', in reality Harry Baldwin Hermon-Hodge, who took over as Assistant Resident at Bauchi.

By 1939 he was a Minister of Religion living at on 30 Norfolk Square, Paddington. He died in 1971 at Poole, Dorset.

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£750

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