The AA Upfill-Brown Collection

A fine Boer War D.S.O., Great War O.B.E. group to Lieutenant-Colonel D. C. Percy-Smith, Middlesex Regiment with an extremely rare Sudan medal

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER, V. R., silver-gilt and enamel; THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, O.B.E. (Military), 1st type; QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (Lieut., D.S.O., Midd'x Rgt.); KING'S SOUTH AFRICA, 2 clasps (Lt., D.S.O., Midd. R.); 1914-15 STAR (Capt., D.S.O., Midd'x. R.); BRITISH WAR and VICTORY MEDALS, M.I.D. (Lt. Col.); KHEDIVE'S SUDAN 1910-21, 3 clasps, Mandal, Miri, Mongalla 1915-16, unnamed; Egypt, ORDER OF THE NILE, 4th class breast badge, silver, gilt and enamel, mounted for wearing excepting the last, very fine and better (9)

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

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Sold with three portrait photographs, all in uniform, two showing medals, one of which is coloured and shows Percy-Smith wearing the group listed above. D.S.O.,

London Gazette, 27 September, 1901, 'In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa. '

Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas Cyril Percy-Smith was born in 1875 and commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment in 1900, following varied service with the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, Bengal Police and Lumsden's Horse. During the course of the Boer War he was present at numerous actions, among them Houtnek (Thoba Mountain), Vet River, Zand River, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Venrerskroon, Ladybrand, and Borhaville, where he was slightly wounded. He was mentioned in despatches and awarded the D.S.O. After promotion and a stint of service as A. D. C. to a Divisional Commander in India, Percy-Smith joined the Egyptian Army and in 1914 he saw service in the Nuba Mountains in Sudan, and in 1916 in the Darfur operations for which he was mentioned in despatches. Later service with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force between 1917 and 1918 resulted in the award of his O.B.E., in addition to another two mentions. He is further entitled to the clasp Lao Nuer on his Sudan medal.