Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Captain B. R. Wilson, 19th Hussars, late 4th Dragoon Guards

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Lieut: B. R. Wilson. 4th Dragn. Gds.) with very faint traces of engraved date ‘21/4/80’ after unit; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Lieut: B. R. Wilson, 4th Dn. Gds.; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, 5th Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, toned, good very fine, the first unique to an officer of the Regiment (4) £1,600-£2,000

Belford Randolph Wilson was born in South Africa in August 1850 and was originally commissioned into the 13th Hussars in January 1872, but transferred into the 4th Dragoon Guards in July 1876. Selected for service in Natal in 1879 with Cavalry Drafts, he was latterly employed with the Field Force and is believed to have been present at Inhlobane Mountain. He was next engaged with the Regiment in the Egypt operations of 1882, being present at the actions at Tel-el-Mahuta and Kassassin, and in the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, services which won him the Fifth Class Order of Mejidie. Transferring into the 19th Hussars in June 1884, Wilson was promoted to Captain in the same month and placed on the Reserve of Officers in the 1890s.