Miniature medals : Colonel C H F H Bartlett, NSW Military Forces

Two miniature medals comprising an Egypt Medal 1882, without a clasp, and a Khedive's Star. Both are fitted with the correct ribbons.

Attributed to Colonel Charles Henry Falkner Hope Bartlett. Born 1 August 1853 at Broadwater Station, Maitland in NSW. His first military appointment was as a lieutenant in the East Maitland Company of the Northern Battalion, NSW Volunteer Force in 1872 and in March 1875 he was promoted to captain. He reverted to the rank of lieutenant in 1878 when his corps was amalgamated but was promoted again to captain in 1880. He resigned in 1883 when he took up an appointment as adjutant in the NSW Permanent Military Forces. In 1885 he went to the Sudan as adjutant with the New South Wales Infantry Contingent and took part in the advance on Tamai where he was Mentioned in Despatches. He received the Egypt medal with clasp 'Suakin 1885' and the Khedive's Star. In 1887 Bartlett traveled to England where he underwent training in musketry and in the operation of Gardiner and Nordenfeldt guns. On return to Australia he was promoted to major in 1887. He was deputy assistant adjutant general on the NSW Headquarters staff from 1893 to 1895. He received a promotion as brevet lieutenant colonel in 1899 and was appointed to the administrative and instructional staff of the 3rd and 4th Regiments in 1902. In 1906 he became assistant adjutant general and chief staff officer with the Commonwealth Military Forces where he was recommended for promotion to colonel. In 1909 he was appointed aide-de-camp to the Governor General, the Earl of Dudley. Bartlett retired as a colonel on 1 April 1912. He died in 1916.