Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel C. G. Nurse, Indian Army, late Royal Irish Fusiliers

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, El-Teb-Tamaai (Lieut., 2/R. Ir. Fusrs.); 1914-15 Star, all naming erased; British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col.); Khedive’s Star 1884, unnamed, mounted as worn, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (5) £400-500

Charles George Nurse was born in Barnham, Suffolk c.1862. He was commissioned into the Royal Irish Fusiliers as a 2nd Lieutenant on 22 January 1881 and was advanced to Lieutenant in July the same year. Serving with the regiment in India, he was variously listed in the Army Lists as an Interpreter or Station Staff Officer, Kolapore. In December 1884 Lieutenant Nurse was seconded to the Indian Staff Corps (London Gazette 13 January 1885). In March 1885 he was appointed to the Bombay Staff Corps (London Gazette 28 September 1886) and was promoted to Captain in the Indian Staff Corps in January 1892 (London Gazette 15 March 1892) and to Major in January 1901 (London Gazette 26 March 1901). Appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in the 113th Infantry in January 1907 (London Gazette 19 March 1907), he retired from the Indian Army on 23 January 1909 (London Gazette 2 February 1909). Nurse served with the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers in the Sudan Expedition of 1884, seeing action at the battles of El-Teb and Tamaai. With the Indian Army he served with the Zaila Field Force during 1890, combating the activities of the ‘Mad Mullah’ in Somaliland.

Lieutenant-Colonel Nurse, Indian Army, returned to action with the onset of the Great War, being re-appointed from retirement on 12 May 1915 (London Gazette 5 June 1915). Attached to the 3rd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 12 May 1915. Latterly living at ‘Redcote’, Rusthall Park, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Lieutenant-Colonel Nurse died on 5 November 1933. With copied gazette extracts, m.i.c. and other research.