Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private J. McKneight, Royal Horse Guards

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 3 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (1087 Pte. J. McKneight. Rl. H. Gds.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, last parts of regiment faint through bruising and overall pitting from star, otherwise better than good fine (2) £800-£1,000

Dix Noonan Webb, December 2014.

6 officers and 45 other ranks of the Royal Horse Guards served in the Heavy Cavalry Regiment on the Nile, of whom 3 officers and 43 other ranks were present at the Battle of Abu Klea.

James McKneight was born at Barony, Glasgow, and enlisted for the Royal Horse Guards at Westminster on 18 May 1880, a Grocer by trade, aged 21 years 10 months. He served in Egypt from 1 August to 19 October 1882, where he was a possible ‘Midnight Charger’ at the Battle of Kassassin on 28 August 1882, and in the Sudan from 26 October 1884 to 16 July 1885. He was discharged on 17 May 1892.

Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extracts.