The Upfill-Brown Collection

An M.S.M. group of four to Captain J.B. Clark, Yorkshire Regiment, late Chief Clerk to Sir Evelyn Wood and Army Service Corps

EGYPT 1882-89, undated, 1 clasp, The Nile 1884-85 (Cr. Sergt., Mil. S. Clerk); ARMY LONGSERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT, E.VII.R. (St. Sergt. Maj., A. S. C.); ARMYMERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL, G.V.R., coinage head (S.S. Mjr., R. A. S. C.); KHEDIVE'S STAR 1884-6, mounted for wearing, contact wear, nearly very fine and better (4)

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

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Captain John Bulmer Clark was born in 1854 and entered the Military Clerks Department in 1880, following a short period of service with the Royal Scots Greys. During the Gordon Relief Expedition, 1884-85, he acted as Chief Clerk to Sir Evelyn Wood, and was also employed by Kitchener. Transferred into the Army Service Corps, Clark was posted to Malta where for several years he acted as a confidential Clerk to various Governors of the Island, and in 1903, after retirement, he took up duties as a Superintending Clerk at the Infantry Record Office. During the Great War he was commissioned into the Yorkshire Regiment and served as a Q. M. at Clipstone Camp but in 1917 he renewed his contract with the Infantry Record Office. Clark finally retired in 1919 by which time he was in his mid-sixties. See lot 367 for M.S.M. group awarded to his son.