Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Colour Sergeant J. Willbourn, Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (1327. C/Sgt. J. Willbourne. 1/R. War: R.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (1327. Color. Sergeant. J. Willbourn. 1st. Roy. Warwickshire. Regt.) contemporarily engraved naming, minor contact marks to first, nearly very fine and better (2) £300-£400

James Bertram Wilbourn, a labourer, was born at Wigston Magna, Leicestershire, around 1868, and witnessed active service in the Sudan with the 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Present during the Atbara Campaign and the Expedition to Khartoum, he was later discharged from the 4th Battalion at Dublin on 31 August 1902 having been found medically unfit for further service. He later rejoined the Colours as Sergeant Major in 1915 - likely training new recruits - but died in the spring of 1917 and was buried at Newham, London.

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