Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The foreign Orders bestowed upon William Littlewood Esq., Chief Veterinary Inspector of the Sanitary Department of the Egyptian Government, Principal of the School of Veterinary Science, Cairo, and Director of Veterinary Services, Ministry of Agriculture

Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, Third Class neck badge, 91mm including crown suspension x 63mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, unmarked; Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmania, Third Class neck badge, 80mm including Star and Crescent suspension x 63mm, silver-gilt and enamel, unmarked, green enamel damage to both obverse and reverse rays of star; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, Third Class neck badge, 80mm including Star and Crescent suspension x 65mm, silver, gold, and enamel, Mint mark to reverse; Serbia, Kingdom, Order of St. Sava, Third Class neck badge, 82mm including crown suspension x 50mm, silver-gilt and enamel, Bishop with red robes, minor white enamel damage to obverse lower arm of cross, all with neck ribands, mounted for display purposes in a wooden glazed frame, very fine unless otherwise stated (4) £600-800

William Littlewood served as Chief Veterinary Inspector of the Sanitary Department of the Egyptian Government, was Principal of the School of Veterinary Science, Cairo, and served as Director of Veterinary Services at the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture. He proceeded to Syria in 1896 to purchase horses for the Nile Campaign for the Egyptian Army, for which services he was awarded the Order of the Medjidie, and was later awarded the Order of Osmania in 1904; the Order of St. Sava in 1907; and the Order of the Nile in November 1915, the latter as a reward for ‘your great knowledge and extreme awareness and on what you have shown of straightness throughout your long service’.

Sold together with the Bestowal Documents for the Serbian Order of St. Sava, and the Egyptian Order of the Nile.