Campaign Groups and Pairs 303 Three: Able Seaman R. W. Howes, Royal Navy
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (R. W. Howes, Boy 1 Cl. H.M.S. Briton.); East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Witu 1890 (R. W. Howes, A.B., H.M.S. Boadecia.), officially re-impressed; Khedive’s Star 1884-86, unnamed as issued, contact marks and minor edge bruising, generally very fine (3)
£280-£32
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Pair: Ordinary Seaman F. A. Davies, Royal Navy
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (F. A. Davies, Ord. 2 Cl. H.M.S. Briton); Khedive’s Star 1884-86, unnamed as issued, very fine (2)
£120-£160
Frederic Ambrose Davies was born in St Helen’s Glamorgan on 29 April 1886. He entered naval service on 29 September 1882, serving on H.M.S. Briton between 1884-87, before he was invalided from Hasla
305
Pair: Engine Room Artificer H. G. Parker, Royal Navy
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (W. Sexton. H.M.S. Orontes.); Khedive’s Star 1884-86, unnamed as issued, pitting from star, nearly very fine (2)
£120-£160
306
Pair: Stoker F. Tucker, Royal Navy
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (F. Tucker, Sto. H.M.S. Dolphin.); Khedive’s Star 1884 -86, unnamed as issued, very fine (2)
£180-£220
Frederick Tucker was born in Kent on 5 November 1862, entering naval service on 18 May 1883, and served in H.M.S. Dolphin between 1 May 1884 and 30 September 1887. He spent six months in Lewes Gaol in 1889 for embezzlement; remaining in the service, he was discharged to shore on 26 November 1903 and was found medially unfit for further service in 1914.
307
Pair: Private G. H. Critchlow, Royal Marine Light Infantry
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 clasps, Suakin 1885, Tofrek (G. H. Critchlow, Pte. R.M.L.I.); Khedive’s Star 1884-6, unnamed as issued, pitting from star, very fine (2)
£240-£280
308
Pair: Drummer J. Nobbin, Grenadier Guards
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (
...mr. J. W. Nobbin, 3/...) ; Khedive’s Star 1884-6, unnamed as issued, suspension claw re-affixed on first, extremely heavy pitting from star obscuring naming, about fair (2)
£80-£120
John William Nobbin was born in Forest Gate, London, in 1867 and attested for the Grenadier Guards at Westminster Police Court on 21 October 1881, aged 14. He served as a Drummer with the 3rd Battalion in Egypt and the Sudan, and having transferred to the Permanent Staff of the 6th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, was discharged on 26 October 1902, after 21 years and 6 days’ service.
Sold with copied research which shows that a man of this name with the same place of birth (although with a somewhat later date of birth) served with the Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine during the Great War, and received a 1914-15 Star Trio and a Mercantile Marine War Meda
309
Pair: Major A. S. Cave, Royal Berkshire Regiment
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (Lieut: A. S. Cave, 1/Rl. Berks: R.); Khedive’s Star 1884-6, the reverse impressed on three points ‘A S C’, mounted as worn, light pitting from star, otherwise very fine (2) £200-£260
Arthur Stephen Cave was appointed Lieutenant in the Royal Berkshire Regiment on 29 August 1885; Captain, 11 May 1894; Major, 16 March 1904; retired 1909. He served with the Egyptian Frontier Field Force in 1885-86, and was present in the engagement at Ginnis (Medal, and Khedive’s Star). Major Cave died at Nettleton, Wiltshire on 13 July 1945, aged 79.
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