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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 84

Pair: Lieutenant A. W. Foote, 1st Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment

Queen's Sudan 1896-98, no clasp (Lt. A. W. Foote 1/N. Staff: R.); Khedive's Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp Hafir, unnamed as issued, good very fine (2)

A. W. Foote was born at Nynee Jal, India, on 18 June 1871, the son of Colonel Foote of Plymouth and was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 25 July 1891 with the 1st Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment, he was posted to Mauritius with them on 26 September that year. Later transferred to South Africa on 13 June 1892, they remained there for nearly a year before being sent to the garrison at Malta.

Moving to India as part of the build-up of troops before the Dongola expedition on 5 October 1895, upon arriving in the Sudan they then took part in the battle at Hafir in September 1896. This action - part of the manoeuvring prior to the Battle of Atabara - was fought by a mixed Anglo-Egyptian force and a powerful gunboat squadron which drove the Dervishes from their positions.

Remaining in Egypt until 3 May 1898, Foote was invalided with 'a species of fit' which the medical board attributed to the heat. Though he continued to serve his health did not recover, and he was invalided out of the Army on 28 April 1903; sold together with copied research comprising medal rolls, service papers and medical reports.

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£520

Starting price
£150