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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 131

(x) Four: Captain B. R. Wilson, 19th Royal Hussars, late 4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish)

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Lieut: B. R. Wilson. 4th Dragn. Gds.), with very faint traces of engraved date ‘21/4/80’ after unit; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Lieut: B. R. Wilson, 4th Dn. Gds.; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882; Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, 5th Class breast Badge, silver, silver-gilt, gold and enamel, toned, good very fine (4)

Just 2 South Africa Medals to the 4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish) - this a unique award to an Officer and another to Private Stone, both with clasp '1879', Stone likely as his Batman.

Belford Randolph Wilson was born at Caracas, Venezuela in August 1850, son of Colonel Sir Belford Hinton & Catherine Randolph Wilson. His father was a famed Army Officer and Diplomat who joined Simon Bolivar in Peru in 1823 and served as his Aide-de-Camp. Young Wilson was living at 8 Hyde Park Gate with his mother by 1861 and was studying at that time. Originally commissioned into the 13th Hussars in January 1872, he transferred into the 4th Dragoon Guards in July 1876. Selected for service in Natal in 1879 with Cavalry Drafts, he was latterly employed with the Field Force and is believed to have been present at Inhlobane Mountain.

A fine cricketer, he variously represented the Regimental Officers XI, including when they inflicted an innings defeat upon the 2nd West Yorkshire Militia at the ground of the Yorkshire Gentlemen in May 1879. He was next engaged with the Regiment in the Egypt operations of 1882, being present at the actions at Tel-el-Mahuta and Kassassin, and in the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, services which won him the Fifth Class Order of Mejidie. Transferring into the 19th Hussars in June 1884, Wilson was promoted to Captain in the same month and placed on the Reserve of Officers. Retired to Hampshire, the good Captain lived at The Cedars, Greywell, Hartley Wintney on the River Whitewater with his wife, with issue of two sons and a daughter and died in July 1897.

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Estimate
£2,000 to £3,000

Starting price
£2000