A Collection of Medals for Tel-el-Kebir

Pair: Private T. Hardiman, 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 4 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Suakin 1884, El-Teb_Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85 (1843 Pte. T. Hardiman. 1/Gord: Highrs); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, good very fine (2) £400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for Tel-el-Kebir.

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Thomas Hardiman was born in the Parish of St Thomas’, Birmingham, and enlisted for 39th Brigade at Walsall on 26 December 1879, aged 18, a brass founder by trade. He served with the 1st Gordon Highlanders in Egypt 1882, in the Eastern Soudan 1884, and in the Nile Expedition 1884-85. He was discharged at Aberdeen on 25 September 1891.

Sold with copied discharge papers.