Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant R. E. Henderson, Guards Machine Gun Regiment, late Lovat Scouts and Royal Sussex Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. R. E. Henderson. Rl. Sussex. Rgt.); 1914-15 Star (Lieut. R. E. Henderson. 1-Lovat’s Scts.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R. E. Henderson.) good very fine (4) £300-£400

Robert Eveleyn Henderson, an East Indies Merchant, was born on 19 December 1890. He was commissioned into the Royal Sussex Regiment and served in South Africa with the 3rd Battalion during the Boer War. He served with 1st Battalion Lovat Scouts during the Great War in the Balkans theatre from 6 September 1915, before later service with the Guards Machine Gun Regiment and appears to have been awarded a Silver War Badge. His medals were sent to him at Sedgwick Park, Horsham, Sussex, and his Medal Index Card notes a further address at Moonhill Place, Cuckfield, Sussex.

Henderson died, aged 44, on 6 November 1925, leaving a most substantial estate valued at £98,147 and is commemorated by an elaborate wall plaque inside St. Martin’s Church, Nuthurst, Sussex.