Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A C.M.G. group of four awarded to Major Henry Lonsdale Hallewell, Queenstown Rifle Volunteers, late Commissariat and Transport Corps

The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, complete with silver-gilt buckle on ribbon, minor enamel damage to centres; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 clasps, El-Teb, The Nile 1884-85 (D.A.C. Genl. H. L. Hallewell, C. & T. Dept.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen (Major H. A. Hallewell, C.M.G., Q’town. R.V.); Khedive’s Star 1884, unnamed, mounted as worn, ribbons fragmentary, note variation in initials, second with some pitting, nearly very fine and better (4) £1300-1600

Henry Lonsdale Hallewell was born on 3 October 1852, the son of Colonel Edmund Gilling Hallewell, 28th Regiment. As a Sandhurst Cadet he was the recipient of a Royal Humane Society Medal in bronze, awarded for a rescue made on 28 May 1871 at Knaresborough, Yorkshire (R.H.S. Case No. 18724) [Medal not included in lot]. He served in the Bengal Famine Relief of 1874 and was mentioned in the Order of the Army of India. As a Deputy Assistant Commissary General in the Commissariat and Transport Corps, he served in the Egypt and Sudan Campaign of 1884-85, being present at the battle of El-Teb. He later served in the operations in Zululand 1888. During the Second Boer War he served as a Major in the Queenstown Rifle Volunteers and was awarded the C.M.G. in 1900 and mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 16 April 1901). Latterly living at The Holt, Alverstoke, Hampshire; he died on 23 June 1908.

Sold with two books: Italienische Krieg vom 1859, by Rustow, the front cover bearing the Royal Crest and inscription in gilt, ‘Royal Military College presented for Attention to, and Progress in, the Study of German’; the inside front cover with paper label, ‘Presented to Gentleman Cadet Henry L. Hallewell, for attention to, and progress in, The Study of German, Decr. 1870’, front cover detached; also The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan, this inscribed inside, ‘Sophia Lonsdale Hallewell from G.P.H. xx. 1844’, both in original covers, both showing signs of wear.

For the recipient’s miniature medals, see lot 652. For his father’s medals and miniatures, see lots 901 and 657.