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Auction: 5005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 547

An Interesting Group of Fifteen to Major General F.G. Anley, C.B., C.M.G., Governor of Wadi Halfa Province, the Sudan, Commanded a Mounted Infantry Battalion in South Africa, 1 and 2 Battalion, Essex Regiment 1912-14, 12th Infantry Brigade 1914-1916, during which time the Brigade never yielded a trench to the enemy, and 234 Brigade in Palestine (a) Order of the Bath, Military Division Companion´s (C.B.) neck Badge, converted from a breast Badge, silver, gold centres, and enamel (b) Order of St Michael and St George, Companion´s (C.M.G.) neck Badge, silver, gold centres, and enamel (c) Egypt, undated, one clasp, The Nile 1884-85 (Lieut. F.G. Anley. 2/Essex R) (d) Queen´s Sudan (Cap: F.G. Auley. Staff: E.A.) (sic) (e) Queen´s South Africa, five clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (Major Essex Rgt) (f) King´s South Africa, two clasps (Major Essex Rgt) (g) 1914 Star with Bar (Lt: Col. Essex R.) (h) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D.Oakleaves (Maj. Gen.) (i) Delhi Durbar 1911 (j) Turkey, Order of the Medjidieh, Fourth Class, silver, gold centre, and enamel, with rosette on riband (k) France, Legion of Honour, Fourth Class breast Badge, gold and enamel, with rosette on riband (l)Egypt, Khedive´s Star, undated (m) Turkey, Order of Liakat, gold (n) Egypt, Khedive´s Sudan Medal, three clasps, Firket, Hafir, Sudan 1899, unnamed, medals mounted as originally worn, backstraps of clasps removed for ´court style´ mounting, very fine or better together with a pocket note book recording ´Trip to Messala to make arrangements with the Italians re- the Egyptian Govt taking the province over. Sept. 97´, being a hand written diary of events 27 September to 24 October 1897, with some additional pages entitled ´Expedition South from Khartoum. Oct. 99´ (15) Estimate £ 3,800-4,200 Major General Frederick Gore Anley (1864-1936), entered the Essex Regiment 23.8.1884, joined ´D´ Company, 2nd Battalion, and served in the Nile Expedition 1884 as Deputy Assistant Adjutant General with the Mounted Infantry; served with the Egyptian Army 1896-99 and with the 2 Sudanese Battalion in the Dongola Expedition 1896, which included the operations of 7 June to 19 September (Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 3.11.1896); operations on the Nile 1897-98 (Mentioned in Despatches; Order of Medjidieh); appointed Governor of Wadi Halfa Province 1899 and saw further service on the Nile that year as D.A.A.G. of an Egyptian Infantry Division; was present in South Africa 1899-1902 and Commanded 6 Mounted Infantry Battalion from December 1899-April 1900 (M.I.D. 31.3.1900; Brevet of Major); Commanded 3 Mounted Infantry 1900 (M.I.D. 8.2.1901 and 29.7.1902); advanced to Major; served with the Macedonian Gendarmerie April 1904-April 1906 (Order of the Liakat 1906); Commanded 1 Battalion as Lieutenant Colonel 23.2.1912 and transferred to 2 Battalion and assumed command the following year at Chatham; the 2nd Essex was the first British Regiment to notify mobilisation complete 7.8.1914; Colonel Anley took his command to France with 12 Infantry Brigade, disembarked at Le Havre, 24 August, led his Battalion into action at the Battle of Le Cateau two days later, and formed part of the rearguard in the retreat from Mons; he assumed command of 12 Infantry Brigade 14.9.1914, and led the Brigade at the battles of the Marne, the Aisne, and the 1st and 2nd Battles of Ypres (M.I.D. in Sir John French´s Despatch for the Aisne 8.10.1914); Temp. Brigadier General 20.10.1914--24.1.1917; Colonel/ Temp. Brigadier General January 1916; handed 12 Brigade over 5.6.1916 with the proud boast that he had never known the Brigade during his command to yield a trench to the enemy (Legion of Honour October 1914; C.B. June 1916); after a period of home duty he joined 234 Brigade, 75 Division, Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine and later commanded them at the third Battle of Gaza; Temporary Major General 25 January-24 June 1917 (C.M.G. 1917); General Anley retired to Bolney, Sussex in October 1919

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