Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The mounted group of ten miniature dress medals worn by Lieutenant-Colonel G. C. M. Hall, Royal Engineers

The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s badge, gold and enamel; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, V.R., gold and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, with rosette on riband; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, silver, gold appliqué, and enamel, with rosette on riband; Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmania, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Sudan 1897, mounted as worn and housed in a Spink, London case, minor enamel damage to top arm of the C.B.E. and bottom point of Star on the Nile, otherwise nearly extremely fine (10) £400-500

C.M.G. London Gazette 1 January 1917:
‘In connection with Military Operations in the Field.’

C.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919:
‘In recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in Egypt and Palestine.’

D.S.O. London Gazette 16 December 1898:
‘In recognition of services during the recent operations in the Sudan.’

George Clifford Miller Hall was born in Southsea, Hampshire, on 26 January 1872, the son of Captain W. H. Hall, Royal Navy. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 12 February 1892, and was promoted Lieutenant on 12 February 1895. He served with the Royal Engineers during the Nile Expedition of 1897-98; was awarded the Turkish Order of Medjidieh, Fourth Class (London Gazette 7 October 1898) and the Order of the Nile, Second Class; was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 9 December 1898); and created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. Promoted Captain on 19 December 1902, he remained with the Royal Engineers in Egypt, serving as Goods Manager of the Egyptian State Railways, and was awarded the Turkish Order of Osmania, Third Class (London Gazette 24 June 1904). Transferring to the Reserve List, he was recalled for service during the Great War, and served as Assistant Director of Railway Transportation, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, from 1 January 1916. For his service during the Great War he was Mentioned in Despatches for distinguished service as part of the Administration in Egypt (London Gazette 21 June 1916); and was appointed a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He subsequently served as Director of the Anglo-Egyptian Local Board of Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas), and died in Exeter, Devon, on 9 December 1930.

Sold together with the recipient’s Cigarette Case, silver (hallmarks for London 1899), the front engraved ‘G. Clifford. M. Hall’, and the reverse engraved with an Arabic inscription.