Orders, Decorations and Medals

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 3 clasps, Suakin 1884, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (4180 Pte. W. Littlefair, A.H.C.) nearly very fine £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Egypt and Sudan Medals 1882-1891 from the Collection of Jack Webb.

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58 other ranks of the Medical Staff Corps were present at Abu Klea, of whom only three men had been present in the 1882 and 1884 campaigns.

William Littlefair was born in the Parish of Reeth, near Richmond, Yorkshire, and enlisted for General Service at Manchester on 18 September 1879, a grocer by trade, aged 21. He served in Egypt in 1882 where he ‘was employed in the Cholera Camp at Ismalia and exhibited great zeal and care in attending on the sick, during the whole period of the epidemic.’ He afterwards served in the operations near Suakin in 1884, and in the Nile Expedition 1884-85, including the battle of Abu Klea. He was discharged on 17 September 1891.