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Auction: 5005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 55

An Omdurman D.C.M. Group of Four to Colour Sergeant T.E. Mackenzie, Cameron Highlanders Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Cr Sgt T.E. Mackenzie. Cam´n Highrs...nd Sept 1898), minor official correction to G of Highrs; Queen´s South Africa, four clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (1644 C. Sgt T.E. Mackenzie. 1st Cam´n: Highrs:); King´s South Africa, two clasps (1644 Clr:-Serjt: T. Mackenzie. Cameron Highrs:); Khedive´s Sudan, two clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (1644 Cr Sgt Mac.Kenzie 1 Cam Highrs), good very fine and better, with an unnamed Queen´s Sudan medal and the group of five related miniatures (5) Estimate £ 2,500-3,000 D.C.M. The Submission to the Commander in Chief, War Office 9.10.1898, requests ´That a Silver Medal for Distinguished Conduct in the Field be granted to each of the following soldiers, in recognition of their gallant conduct during the recent operations in the Sudan.´ Colour Sergeant Thomas Edward Mackenzie, the son of Sergeant John Mackenzie (see above), enlisted 24.8.1885; Colour Sergeant 1892; served with the 1st Battalion in the Sudan (D.C.M. London Gazette 15.11.1898 and M.I.D. London Gazette 30.9.1898) and in South Africa (M.I.D.); discharged 22.10.1902; Colour Sergeant Mackenzie retired to West Ealing, Middlesex, where he died in 1935.

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