Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Khartoum Rifle Club Governor General’s Medal, 25mm, gold (11.91g.), the obverse featuring a heraldic shield, ‘Presented by Major General Sir Reginald Wingate Governor General MDCCCCV’ inscribed around edge, the reverse inscribed ‘The Khartoum Rifle Club, 1905, The “Governor General” Medal won by L. H. Gwynne’, complete with gold brooch bar, extremely fine

Khartoum Golf Club Governor General’s Medal, 25mm, silver, the obverse featuring a heraldic shield, ‘Presented by Major General Sir Reginald Wingate Governor General MDCCCCV’ inscribed around edge, the reverse inscribed ‘The Khartoum Rifle Club Sirdar Medal won by [unnamed]’, with crossed golf clubs and ring suspension, extremely fine

Prize Medal, silver, with gold central shield bearing the cipher ‘N.C.A.’, banner below dated 1892, the reverse engraved ‘L. H. Gwynne’, silver marks to reverse, with ring suspension, very fine (3) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Chaplains formed by Philip Mussell.

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Llewellyn Henry Gwynne, Lord Bishop of Egypt and the Sudan, was born on 11 June 1863, the son of Richard Gwynne, Esq., of Kilvey, near Swansea, and was educated at Swansea Grammar School and St. John’s Hall, Highbury. Entering the Church, he was Curate of St. Chad’s, Derby, 1886-89 and St. Andrew’s, Nottingham, 1889-92. He subsequently held the living of Vicar of Emmanuel, Nottingham, 1892-99, after which he went out as a missionary to Khartoum after the recovery of the Sudan, and was appointed Archdeacon of the Sudan in 1905. Consecrated Bishop in 1908, as suffragan Bishop of Khartoum (Diocese of Jerusalem), in 1908, he served during the Great War as a Volunteer Chaplain with the Expeditionary Force in France, August 1914 - August 1915, and Deputy Chaplain-General in France, 1915. For his services he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 16 June 1916). In 1920 he was translated to the new see of Egypt and the Sudan, and was enthroned in Cairo on 21 November 1921. During his time as Bishop he was instrumental in the building of All Saint’s Cathedral, Cairo, which was consecrated by the Archbishop of York in 1938. He retired in 1946 to Epping, Essex, and died on 3 December 1957.