Five: Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. Townsend, East Surrey Regiment

British War Medal 1914-20 (Major C. H. Townsend.); Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmanieh, Fourth Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Order of the Medjidieh, Fourth Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Sudan 1899, unnamed as issued; Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, 3rd Class neck badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamels, the first four mounted court-style as worn, together with similarly mounted set of five miniature dress medal and tunic riband bar, all contained in a specially fitted double-fronted glazed leather display case by Spink, Piccadilly, nearly extremely fine (5) £1,000-£1,400

Order of Medijieh London Gazette 23 September 1902.

Order of Osmanieh London Gazette 22 March 1912.

Order of the Nile London Gazette 20 June 1916.

Cuthbery Hanson Townsend was born on 5 April 1872, at Rushbrook, near Queenstown, son of Admiral S. P. Townsend, R.N. He was educated at United Service College, Westward Ho!, North Devon, and R.M.C. Sandhurst 1891. Noted to be acquainted with French and German, following training at the Royal Military College he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 18 June 1892, into the East Surrey Regiment. Promoted Lieutenant on 29 May 1894, he was appointed Adjutant in November 1896. Seconded to Egyptian Army on 9 March 1899, he was A.A.G. Egyptian Army 1905-07. He retired from the British Army in 1910 but continued to serve in Egypt. He was Governor of Berber Province for three years, then Governor and Commandant of Troops, Kassala Province for four years. He retired from the Egyptian Army and Sudan Government Service in 1917, and was employed at the War Office 1917-18 (single B.W.M. for services in Sudan confirmed. He was afterwards Regional Director of Pensions for the N.W. Region, 1919-25.

His first wife, Letitia, died on 2 May 1938, and he remarried on 2 April 1946 to Muriel Amy Denton. He died on 27 January 1956, while living at Godrevy, Park Hill Road, Ewell, Surrey.

Sold with original Commission Certificate dated 18 June 1892, and copied research saved to CD.