The Upfill-Brown Collection

A Sudan, Boer War group of three with a presentation watch to Private F. C. Carter, Grenadier Guards

QUEEN'S SUDAN 1896-7 (6S90Pte., 1/Gren. Gds.); QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, S.A. 1901, S.A. 1902(6590 Pte., Grenadier Gds.); KHEDIVE'S SUDAN 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (Pte., Gren. Gds.); Silver Cased Half-Hunter Pocket Watch, by Hamilton & Inches of Edinburgh, watchmakers to the King and the Admiralty, hallmarked Edinburgh 1897, the outer case engraved 'No. 6590 Private F. Carter, Grenadier Guards, from Captain E. H. Trotter, D.S.O., ' the inner case with the inscription 'No. 3 Coy. 1st Bn. Gren. Gds, 1898, Egypt - Khartoum, C.I.V. 1900, South Africa, Cape Colony, Orange River Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, No. 1 Coy. Guards M.I., South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902,' in good working order, the group mounted court style for display, good very fine and better (4)

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

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Private Carter served initially with the C.I.V. in South Africa, No. 1552, earning the first four clasps to his Queen's medal in that unit. He transferred back to the Grenadier Guards, Mounted Infantry, for the remainder of the war. It would seem that he was Captain Trotter's batman or private servant throughout the campaigns in the Sudan and South Africa.