A rare Darfur 1916 operations M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant S. Hart, attached Military Works Department, Egyptian Army
Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. S. Hart); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, 4 clasps, Darfur 1916, Lau Nuer, Nyima 1917-18, Aliab Dinka, unnamed as issued, clasp rivets sewn on the last, good very fine or better (4) £1600-1800

M.C. London Gazette 4 June 1917. Samuel Hart, who was attached to the Egyptian Army, participated in the Darfur operations of 1916, for which he was mentioned in despatches for the ‘military operations from the occupation of El Fasher to the conclusion of hostilities’ (London Gazette 29 May 1917 refers), and awarded the M.C. He subsequently served in operations against the Lau Nuers and in the Nyima Hills and Nuba Mountains Province 1917-18, and in the operations against the Aliab Dinka 1919-20, and was awarded the Order of the Nile, 4th class (London Gazette 22 April 1921 refers), in addition to qualifying for the above described Khedive’s Sudan Medal & 4 clasps and a single British War Medal 1914-20; sold with copied MIC entry which also refers to his entitlement to the clasps for “Nyima 1917-18” and “Aliab Dinka”.