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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 85

Four: Captain R. D. Jephson, Royal Army Medical Corps

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Lt. R. F. Jephson. R.A.M.C.); Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing's Nek (Capt. R. D. Jephson. R.A.M.C.); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt. R. D. Jephson. R.A.M.C.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (Lieut. Jephson. R.A.M.C. 1898.), engraved naming, suspension repaired on third, very fine (4)

Robert Dalkeith Jephson was born at Kingston, Dublin on 19 July 1871 and was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps on 28 July 1897. He served on the Nile in the Sudan in 1898 (Queen's Medal, Khedive's Medal & clasp) and was thence promoted Captain on 28 July 1900, serving during the Boer War with the 9th Field Hospital (Queen's Medal & 6 clasps, King's Medal & 2 clasps). Jephson died at Rawalpindi on 9 January 1904 after having gone out hunting with two of his dogs earlier that day. He was found to be shot through the head and died before he could be taken to hospital, having arrived the previous day after marching up with an Artillery Battery from Umballa; sold together with copied research.

For his miniature dress medals, please see Lot 490.

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Sold for
£700

Starting price
£320