Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Paymaster-in-Chief R. J. M. Macleod, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (R. J. M. Macleod, Payr. R.N. H.M.S. Arab.) impressed naming; Khedive’s Star 1884, unnamed, mounted as worn, together with companion miniature medals, the Egypt with dated reverse, the Khedive's Star undated, dark toned, good very fine (4) £200-£300

Robert John Moore Macleod was born on 3 March 1844, and joined the Royal Navy as an Assistant Clerk on 13 September 1860; Assistant Paymaster, 3 March 1865; Paymaster, 4 March 1879; Staff Paymaster, 17 February 1886; Fleet Paymaster, 4 March 1891; Paymaster-in-Chief, 11 October 1903. Was Paymaster of Arab in commissariat and transport charge of the Naval Brigade landed for the protection of Suakin, in the Eastern Soudan, March, 1884 (Egyptian Medal, Khedive’s Bronze Star). Paymaster-in-Chief Macleod died on 21 June 1936.

Sold with a good selection of original documents, including various Certificates of Examination; Commissions as Assistant Paymaster (1865), Paymaster (1879) these two on vellum, Staff Paymaster (1886), and Fleet Paymaster (1891); Commissions appointing him as Secretary (4), to Rear-Admiral Henry D. Hickley, Senior Officer on the Coast of Ireland, May 1885; to Rear-Admiral Hon. Walter C. Carpenter, Senior Officer on the Coast of Ireland, January 1887; to Rear-Admiral James E. Erskine, Senior Officer on the Coast of Ireland, December 1888; and to Vice-Admiral James E. Erskine, Commander-in-Chief in the North America and West Indies Station, March 1895; and four portrait photographs taken at various stages of his naval career, together with other related family letters and photographs.