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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 426

Sold by Order of a Direct Descendant

The Order of the Nile awarded to E. R. Branston, Sudan Railways

Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, breast Badge with rosette upon riband, by Lattes, Cairo, date hallmark for 1928-29, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, in its fitted case of issue and corresponding miniature award, good very fine (2)

Ernest Richard Branston was born on 13 October 1883 and was educated at Brighton Grammar School and then Brighton Technical College. He was working as an Assistant Manager at the Sudan Government Technical Workshops by 1910 and is understood to have worked on the Sudan Railways from at 1913-27. He had retired to Tunbridge Wells by 1939 but served as a Deputy A.R.P. Warden during the second World War. He died in March 1960.

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Estimate
£160 to £200

Starting price
£130