Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Africa General Service 1902-56, 4 clasps, N. Nigeria, Aro 1901-1902, N. Nigeria 1903, S. Nigeria 1903 (Serjt: A. E. Klee. N. Nigeria Regt.) the last two clasps contemporary tailor’s copies, good very fine and rare £600-£800

Provenance: J. B. Hayward & Son, April 1976 (Medal with clasp ‘Aro 1901-1902’ only); Lieutenant-Colonel A. M. Macfarlane Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, July 2001 (with three additional clasps added, the last two contemporary tailor’s copies).

Albert Edward Klee enlisted in the Royal Artillery in 1895 and served in West Africa for at least four years, seconded to the North Nigeria Regiment. During the year 1900 he won the East & West Africa medal with clasp ‘1900’, the Ashanti medal with clasp ‘Kumassi’, and the Africa General Service medal with clasp ‘N. Nigeria’. He subsequently took part in the Aro campaign 1901-1902, and operations in Northern and Southern Nigeria during 1903, earning three further clasps to his A.G.S. medal. He was wounded at Mkpani in Southern Nigeria during December 1903, and won the Distinguished Conduct Medal, as Sergeant-Major, for gallantry during an attack on Akindu during a patrol through the Irrua country of Southern Nigeria in October 1904 (D.C.M. London Gazette 23 February 1906). He received his Army L.S. & G.C. in 1906, and fought during the Great War, earning the 1914 Star and bar trio. It is believed that he led the King’s horse at the funeral of Edward VII in 1910. Sold with comprehensive research including verification of all medal and clasp entitlements and a copy group photograph in full Royal Horse Artillery dress of the Riding Troop R.H.A.