Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Three: Rear-Admiral H. N. Dudding, Royal Navy, who served with the East Soudan Field Force in 1891 and later witnessed the engagement of the Spanish Pacific Squadron by Commodore George Dewey at the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898
Jubilee 1897, silver (Capt. H. N. Dudding R.N.) contemporarily engraved naming; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, Third Class neck badge, silver, gold and enamel, with court stamp to reverse, with short section of neck riband for display purposes; Khedive’s Star, undated, with Tokar clasp, unnamed as issued; together with a very small miniature of the Order of the Medjidieh; and a gold and enamel miniature riband bar, the reverse engraved ‘H. N. Dudding’, some red enamel damage to the Medjidieh, otherwise good very fine

Four: Major H. N. N. Dudding, Royal Field Artillery
1914 Star, with clasp (Lieut. H. N. N. Dudding. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H. N. N. Dudding.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (Major H. N. N. Dudding. R.A.) mounted as worn, generally very fine

Pair: Nurse Winifred Dudding, British Red Cross and Order of St John of Jerusalem
Voluntary Medical Service Medal (Edith W. Dudding.); British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1914-1918, unnamed, with integral top brooch bar; together with the recipient’s British Red Cross Society Proficiency in Nursing badge ‘04978 W. Dudding’; British Red Cross Society Proficiency in First Aid badge ‘08404 W. Dudding’; B.R.C.S. Service and 10 Year’s Service badges; and St John Ambulance Association re-examination small bronze medallion, the reverse engraved ‘178905 Winifred Dudding’, generally very fine (9) £700-£900

Horatio Nelson Dudding was born in 1849, the eldest son of the Reverend Horatio Nelson Dudding, Vicar of St. Peter’s Church in St Albans. He entered the Royal Navy in 1862 and obtained an Admiralty Scholarship of £100 for general proficiency. As Commander of H.M.S. Dolphin he was granted the Order of Medjidie Third Class in 1892 and the Khedive’s Bronze Star by the Khedive of Egypt in recognition of distinguished services at the Battle of Tokar; only two ships were engaged in operations at Tokar on 19 February 1891, Dolphin and Sandfly, with 109 men entitled to Medal and clasp. As Commander of Dolphin, Dudding further received the thanks of the Brazilian Government for rescuing the whole crew of the Brazilian corvette Almirante Barrozo when she was wrecked upon a reef in the Red Sea in May 1893. Transferred to Port Arthur during the crisis of 1898, Dudding was present that same year at the capture of Manila by Admiral Dewey. Raised Rear-Admiral in 1905, Dudding retired a short while later to Ashley Mead, St Albans. He died in 1917.

Horatio Nelson Nugent Dudding was born on 8 February 1888, the eldest son of Rear-Admiral H. N. Dudding. Educated at Charterhouse and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, from 1905 to 1907, Dudding was appointed to a commission in the Royal Field Artillery on 23 July 1907. Advanced Lieutenant 23 July 1910, he served with the B.E.F. in France from 6 September 1914 and was promoted Captain on 30 October 1914. Advanced Major on 7 August 1917, he took Special Employment at the War Office from 6 April to 29 September 1918 and was placed on the Staff of Scottish and Eastern Command until 14 November 1919. Sent on a Staff Gunnery Officer’s Course, he later became a specialist in anti-aircraft and coastal defence, serving as Senior Instructor at the Military College of Science from October 1929. Taking his retirement in 1935, Dudding returned to service during the Second World War at the War Office in the role of Military Secretary; he is still recorded on the Retired List of officers in February 1967.

Miss Winifred Dudding served during the Great War as a Nurse with No. 24 (Cumberland) Voluntary Aid Detachment from 25 March 1915 to 30 April 1919. She worked at Dalston Hall Auxiliary Hospital in Carlisle and Englethwaite Auxiliary Hospital which was located in the somewhat grand surroundings of Englethwaite Hall in the Eden Valley, Cumbria.

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