Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Able Seaman S. H. Knight, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 2 clasps, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (Ord., H.M.S. Northumberland) official correction to part of ship’s name; Khedive’s Star, 1882, unnamed as issued, slight edge bruising and contact marks, very fine (2) £550-650

Ex Douglas-Morris Collection, D.N.W. 16 October 1996, lot 334.

Samuel Henry Knight was born in West Leigh, Lancashire on 13 July 1864. He entered into the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on Impregnable on 16 September 1879, was advanced to Boy 1st Class on the Ganges in September 1880. Posted to the Northumberland in September 1881, he was advanced to Ordinary Seaman aboard the ship on 13 July 1882 and served in the Egypt campaign of 1882. Leaving the Northumberland in November 1883, he served on the Royal Adelaide and thence the Alexandra on which, in April 1884, he was promoted to Able Seaman. After service on the Invincible and again on the Alexandra, he joined the Monarch on 1 October 1884. From that ship he was drafted into the Naval Brigade and saw service with the Nile flotilla and was present at the battle of Abu Klea, one of 61 men of the Royal Navy entitled to the clasp. Further service followed, his last ship being the Curlew, from which he was invalided on 4 May 1888. Sold with copied service paper and copied extracts for rolls.