Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Staff Sergeant A. Tillman, 21st Lancers, later Military Provost Staff Corps, who took part in the celebrated Charge at Omdurman on 2 September 1898

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3360. L: C’pl: A. Tillman. 21/L’crs.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (1343 S. Sjt: A. Tillman. M.P.S.C.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (3360 Lcl. Cpl. A. Tillman 21st. Lcrs.) contemporarily engraved naming in the usual Regimental style, edge bruising and contact marks, very fine (3) £3,000-£4,000

Arthur Tillman was born in Farnham, Surrey, in 1872 and attested for the 21st Hussars in London on 27 October 1891, having previously served with the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. He was appointed Lance-Corporal on 18 May 1892 and in October 1896 he embarked with the Regiment to Cairo for service in Egypt; the following year the 21st Hussars were redesignated the 21st Lancers. He served with the 21st Lancers in the Sudan, and is confirmed as having taken part in the famous Charge at Omdurman as part of Captain W. M. Doyne’s “C” Squadron on 2 September 1898. Promoted Corporal on 28 February 1900, and Sergeant on 21 March 1901, he transferred to the Military Prison Staff Corps on 1 February 1903, and was promoted Staff Sergeant in the now redesignated Military Provost Staff Corps on 3 February 1909. Awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, he was discharged medically unfit on 31 January 1911, after 19 years and 97 days’ service, and died in 1955.

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