Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private W. Curtis, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (1780. Pte. W. Curtis. 3/60th. Foot.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 3 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Suakin 1884, El-Teb_Tamaai (1780. Pte. W. Curtis 3/K.R. Rif: C.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, light contact marks and pitting from Star, nearly very fine and better (3) £700-£900

Spink, April 2012 (when sold without the Khedive’s Star).

William Curtis was born in Whitchurch, Hampshire, in 1846 and attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 23 May 1868, having previously served with the Hampshire Militia. He served with the Regiment in Canada from November 1868 to June 1869, and again from October 1871 to January 1877; with the 3rd Battalion in South Africa from February 1879 to February 1882; and in Egypt and the Sudan from July 1882 to August 1884. He was discharged on 18 June 1889, after 21 years and 23 days’ service.

Sold with copied record of service and other research.