VANDELEUR (Lieut. [Cecil Foster] Seymour).
Campaigning on the Upper Nile and Niger.
Vandeleur was gazetted Scots Guards in 1889, and promoted Captain and Major in 1898. He saw Special Service in Uganda in 1894, the Unyoro Expedition and Dufile, Nile, 1895-6. He saw service with the Niger Sudan Expedition, 1897 - MiD, DSO - and with the Egyptian Army at Atbara and Omdurman, where wounded serving with the 9th Sudanese Btn.