The Simon C. Marriage Collection of Medals to the Artillery

Pair: Major H. A. C. Darley, Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia)

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Nandi 1905-06 (Captain H. A. C. Darley. R.G.A. M.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Major H. A. C. Darley.) toned, extremely fine (2) £400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Simon C. Marriage Collection of Medals to the Artillery.

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Henry Algernon Cholmley Darley was born at Buttercrambe, Yorkshire, in May or June 1870. He was gazetted Lieutenant into the Yorkshire Artillery (Western Division) on 10 January 1900, formerly a Captain but no unit given. He was promoted to Major, late Yorkshire R.G.A., in September 1914 and is entitled to 1914-15 Star trio. He was the author of Slaves and Ivory in Abyssinia, London 1926, an informative anti-Foreign Office account of the state of slavery in East Africa prior to the Great War. Major Darley died in 1945.