Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The rare A.G.S. ‘Kissi 1905’ awarded to John Coulson, (Corporal) Messenger, British Consulate at Monrovia

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kissi 1905 (John Coulson.) good very fine £700-£900

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, Medals from an Africa Collection.

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Julian Johnson Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, May 2017

John Coulson was employed as (Corporal) Messenger at the British Consulate Monrovia, Liberia. The four members of staff at the consulate were: H.M.’s Consul Captain Charles Branthwaite Wallis; Police Constable Moses Tucker; Interpreter Alli Marburu and Coulson. The consul having gained agreement for the Liberian Government for British forces to enter their territory. Each one accompanied the expedition under Major C. E. Palmer, Royal Artillery into the Kissi country, 17 April - 29 May 1905.

Published in 1910, The Land of the White Helmet, was a record of the travels of the American editor and author Edgar Allen Forbes throughout Egypt, Morocco, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Whilst in Monrovia Forbes met the British Consul Captain Wallis, whom he mentions several times in his book. He also published a photograph of Wallis in the book standing next to the only other European member of staff - John Coulson.

Sold with copied research, including photographic image of recipient.