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EAST & WEST AFRICA MEDAL 1887-1900 : COLONIAL CIVIL SERVANT
Bar, '1897-98', Mr. F.G.D. GLOSSOP, WAFF., correct style impressed naming : (FRANK GEORGE D. GLOSSOP - Is believed to have been born about 1860: He first entered Government employment as a Clerk with the War Office in November 1878: Subsequently transferred to the Colonial Office and in March 1879, took up an appointment as an Audit Clerk in Cyprus, and in September of that year became 1st.Clerk to the Receiver-General: In April 1885 he was appointed Island Treasurer and moved to Acting Auditor in July 1889 until December 1890: He held various Government posts in Cyprus, including Superintendent of Census in 1891: Acted as Commissioner for Kyrenia from July to September 1892; Acting Receiver-General 1892 and Acting Commissioner for Kyrenia and Larnaca 1893: He was Commissioner and local Commandant of Police for Kyrenia in 1894 and appointed temporarily Chief Accountant to the West African Frontier Force in 1898: He served with the military expedition to the Lagos Hinterland of Nigeria, between September 1897 and 14 June 1898 and received special mention in the official Colonial Office Report on the West African Frontier Force:- "Accounts Department - If I have used terms of strong praise for the Medical Department, I desire to express no lesser approbation for the work done by Messrs. GLOSSOP and Harrison, Chief and Assistant Accountants. Practically without assistance they have laboured indefatigably to clear up tangled arrears. In this connection Mr Harrison perhaps deserves special praise. Mr GLOSSOP has shown that he possesses two qualities, which I venture to submit mark him out as qualified for larger responsibility. He is jealous of the public expenditure, and shows anxiety on all occasions to check expenditure and to insist on adequate authority, and he has initiative by which he has effected several minor reforms and simplification of procedure without sacrifice of principles." : Listed on the Medal Roll dated 10 October 1902 with four other recipients,including Mr S.J.Harrison, as 'Accounts', where he is also shown as 'Deceased': He died on 13 September 1899 at Jebba, Nigeria. No British Regiments took part in these operations.) : Sold with verification: copy entry in the Colonial Office List for 1899; copy Index to Death Duty Register: A rare medal to a Colonial Civil Servant: NEF - £495