A rare Sudan group of nine to Engineer Lieutenant Commander F. W. Wildish, Royal Naval Reserve

1914-15-STAR TRIO (Eng. Lt. Cdt., R.N.R.); 1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR;DEFENCE and WAR MEDALS; ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE DECORATION, G.V.R. ;SUDAN 1910-21, 2nd issue, 1 clasp, Zeraf 1913-14, unnamed as issued, the group mounted court style for display, very fine and better (9)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The AA Upfill-Brown Collection.

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Frederick William Wildish was employed as Engineer in charge of Dockyard East, Khartoum, December, 1912; Chief Engineer, Sudan Government, Steamers Department, March, 1913; Deputy Superinteding Engineer, Uganda Railways Marine, December, 1914; Senior Navy Engineer, Lake Victoria, Nyansa Flotilla, March, 1915. He was promoted Lieutenant, R.N.R., in December, 1915, and returned as Deputy Superinrending Engineer, Uganda Railway Marine in October, 1917. He received the Reserve Decoration in 1919 and left the Navy to work as an Engineer in private industry in July 1921. He was placed on the Retired List with the rank of Engineer Lieutenant Commander but returned to the Active List in December, 1939, after which he served in H.M. Establishments Nimrod, Torch, Bee and Victory. He reverted to the Retired List, medically unfit, in 1944 and died in Edinburgh in 1948.