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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 343

The interesting and well-documented C.B.E. group of nine awarded to Colonel R. M. Feilden, Oxfordshire Light Infantry and Egyptian Army, Governor and Officer Commanding Bahr-El-Ghazal 1910-17

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander's (C.B.E.) Civil Division, 1st Type neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Lieut. & Adjutant R. M. Feilden 2nd Bn. Oxf: Lt. Infy); Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt. R. M. Feilden. 1/Oxf. L.I.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. Col. R. M. Feilden); Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmanieh, breast Badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette upon riband; Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Medjidieh, breast Badge, silver, gold centre and enamel, with rosette upon riband; Khedive's Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Nyam Nyam (El Bimbashi Feilden.); Khedive's Sudan 1910-22, 1 clasp, Nyima 1917-18, unnamed as issued; Royal Humane Society, silver medal, successful (Lieut: R. M. Feilden. 23rd July, 1895.), group mounted cavalry-style as originally worn where applicable, some enamel damage to the Orders, otherwise good very fine (9)

Provenance:
Spink, July 2005, Lot 528. His other Turkish and Egyptian Orders were sold separately.

C.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1918.

[Turkish Order of Medjiedeh 3rd Class] London Gazette 8 May 1914.

Turkish Order of Medjiedeh 4th Class London Gazette 3 August 1906.

Turkish Order of Osmaniah 4th Class London Gazette 29 June 1909.

[Egyptian Order of the Nile, 2nd Class] London Gazette 23 May 1922.

[Egyptian Order of the Nile, 3rd Class] London Gazette 20 June 1916 (Governor of Bahr-El-Ghazal).

R.H.S. Silver Medal awarded 1895:

'For having on the 23rd July 1895 at great personal risk gone to the rescue of two ladies who were in imminent danger of drowning in the Sea at Hayburn Wyke, near Scarborough and whose lives he gallantly saved.'

Randle Montague Feilden was born in 1871, the fourth son of Sir William Leyland Feilden, 3rd Baronet of Feniscowles, County Lancaster. Young Feilden was educated Charterhouse and Sandhurst and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the The Oxfordshire Light Infantry in 1892, serving as its Adjutant from 1896-1900. He served in the Mohmand and Tirah Expeditions 1897-98, and was involved in the action on 30 December 1898 when the withdrawing piquets were nearly overwhelmed by the Afridis (Medal & 2 clasps). Advanced Captain in 1900 he saw more campaign service during the Boer War and was 'mentioned' (London Gazette 29 July 1902, refers).

He joined the Egyptian Army in 1903 and thence served in operations against Nyam Nyams, Sudan, 1904-05, was Civil Administrator Port Sudan 1905-08, Assistant Civil Secretary, Sudan Government 1908-10 and was advanced Major in 1911. He was Governor and Officer Commanding Bahr-El-Ghazal Province and District 1910-17 and commanded the operations against Agadir (Agaakir) Dinkas, Sudan, in 1913. Feilden was again 'mentioned' during the Great War and was Civil Secretary to the Sudan Government, 1917-21, before commanding the Nyma Patrol 1917-18. He was promoted to Pasha in Egyptian Army in 1920 and retired to Jersey in 1921. Sadly, his wife died in 1933 whilst they were living at La Chasse St. Martins. In 1936 his house was sold, becoming a resident at the Ommaroo Hotel. With the outbreak of the Second World War, he was evacuated on 29 May 1940 together with his son and daughter. Feilden died on 23 March 1965.

Sold together with the following archive which is worthy of further story for the Sudan enthusiast or historian:

(i)
Commissioning document, dated 17 August 1892.

(ii)
Royal Humane Society, Silver Medal Bestowal Document, dated 16 August 1895.

(iii)
Licence to Wear Document for the Order of Medjidie Fourth Class, dated St. James's 26 July 1906.

(iv)
United Grand Lodge of Freemasons of England, Certificate of Brother Randle Montague Feilden dated 14 January 1904.

(v)
An interesting album of photographs, including many group portraits of members of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry in Bareilly, India.

(vi)
A large quantity of loose photographs, mostly of military or local subjects in Bahr-el-Ghazal, Khartoum, Suakin and Port Sudan, including the Ceremonial Opening of the Port and Harbour of Port Sudan 1909.

(vii)
A typed Farewell Address from the Hellenic Community of Port Sudan to 'El Kaim R.M. Feilden Bey' dated Port Sudan 18 March 1908.

(viii)
Invitation Card from the Governor General of the Sudan to 'El Kaim R.M. Feilden Bey' requesting his presence at the Opening of the Port and Harbour of Port Sudan 1 April 1909.

(ix)
Copy of Army Orders, Khartoum 11 September 1921, 'Farewell Orders' on the retirement from the Egyptian Army of 'El Lewa R.M. Feilden Pasha'.

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Sold for
£5,800

Starting price
£3200