Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
21 21 A Fine Order of St. John Group of Three to Major J.H. Rivers, Royal Army Medical Corps a) The Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast Badge, silver and enamel, reverse engraved “Captain John Herbert Rivers, R.A.M.C., 1901” b) Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmania, Fourth Class breast Badge, 80mm including Star and Crescent suspension x 65mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, with rosette on ribbon c) Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, one clasp, NyamNyam (Major J.H. Rivers. R.A.M.C.), nearly extremely fine, mounted as worn (3) £1,200-1,500 Turkey, Order of Osmania, Fourth Class London Gazette 3.4.1906 Major John Herbert Rivers, Royal Army Medical Corps ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered to His Highness the Khedive of Egypt.’ Major John Herbert Rivers, (1869-1913), born Harlow, Essex; Appointed Surgeon-Lieutenant, January 1893; Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps, January 1896; Major, July 1904; seconded for service with the Egyptian Army, January 1899-January 1906, and served in the Sudan during 1905, taking part in the operations against the Nyam-Nyam tribes in the Bahr-el-Ghazai province on the Belgian Congo border, as part of a force comprising 18 British and 30 native officers, and 700 men (awarded Order of Osmania); retired, February 1911.
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Major J. H. Rivers