Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Paymaster-in-Chief R. J. M. Macleod, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (R. J. M. Macleod, Payr. R.N. H.M.S. Arab.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1884, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, together with companion miniature medals, the Egypt with dated reverse, the Khedive's Star undated, dark toned, good very fine (2) £500-£700

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Egypt Medals to the Royal Navy.

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Approximately 76 no clasp medals awarded to H.M.S. Arab.

Robert John Moore Macleod was born on 3 March 1844, and joined the Royal Navy as an Assistant Clerk on 13 September 1860. Promoted Assistant Paymaster on 3 March 1865, and Paymaster on 4 March 1879, he served in H.M.S. Arab from 15 February 1881 to 28 May 1885, and was in commissariat and transport charge of the Naval Brigade landed for the protection of Suakin, in the Eastern Sudan, in March 1884 during the Sudanese campaign. Promoted Staff Paymaster on 17 February 1886, and Fleet Paymaster on 4 March 1891, he transferred to the Retired List as Paymaster-in-Chief on 11 October 1903, and died on 21 June 1936.

Sold with a good selection of original documents, including various Certificates of Examination; Commissions as Assistant Paymaster (1865), Paymaster (1879) these two on vellum, Staff Paymaster (1886), and Fleet Paymaster (1891); Commissions appointing him as Secretary (4), to Rear-Admiral Henry D. Hickley, Senior Officer on the Coast of Ireland, May 1885; to Rear-Admiral Hon. Walter C. Carpenter, Senior Officer on the Coast of Ireland, January 1887; to Rear-Admiral James E. Erskine, Senior Officer on the Coast of Ireland, December 1888; and to Vice-Admiral James E. Erskine, Commander-in-Chief in the North America and West Indies Station, March 1895; and four portrait photographs taken at various stages of his naval career, together with other related family letters and photographs; and copied service record and medal roll extract.