Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant E. H. V. Haldane, 88th Foot, later Bengal Staff Corps

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Lieut. E. H. V. Haldane. 88th. Foot.) third initial ‘V’ officially corrected; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 clasps, Suakin 1885, Tofrek (Lieut: E. H. V. Haldane. 30th. Punjaub Infy.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1884-6, unnamed as issued, nearly extremely fine and the clasp Tofrek rare to a British Officer (3) £1,800-£2,200

Edward Henry Vere Haldane was born on 11 December 1857 and was commissioned Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Monmouth Engineers Militia on 21 March 1876. He transferred as a Second Lieutenant to the 88th Foot (Connaught Rangers) on 1 May 1878, and served with them in South Africa during the Zulu War - the Regimental History by Colonel Jourdain contains an annotated group photograph of the Officers at Fort Tenedos in Zululand in 1879, in which the recipient is present.

Haldane transferred to the Bombay Staff Corps on 19 October 1882, and was appointed Quartermaster on 9 April 1883. He saw further service during the Egypt and Sudan campaign, and died at Barreilly, India, on 19 July 1886, aged 30.

Sold with copied research, including the aforementioned group photograph.