A Collection of Medals Relating to the Battle of Abu Klea

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 4 clasps, Suakin 1884, El-Teb-Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (Lieut. F. G. Todd Thornton, 1/R. Suss. R.) the clasps all contemporary tailor’s copies, pitting from star, otherwise nearly very fine and very rare £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals Relating to the Battle of Abu Klea.

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Lieutenant F. G. Todd-Thornton was one of the two officers of the small contingent comprising just two officers and 25 other ranks of the 1st Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, who served with the Mounted Infantry Camel Regiment at Abu Klea.

Frederick Geale Todd-Thornton was commissioned into the Royal Sussex Regiment, 13 August 1879, and promoted to Lieutenant, 1 July 1881. He served in the Egyptian Expedition 1882-84 with the Mounted Infantry, Cavalry Brigade, under Sir Herbert Stewart, including operations at Ramleh, surrender of Kafr-el-Dowar and occupation of Damanhour (Egypt Medal and Khedive’s Star); and in the Sudan in 1884, with the Mounted Infantry, at the battles of El-Teb and Tamaai (2 clasps). He served in the Nile Expedition 1884-85, with the Mounted Infantry Regiment of the Camel Corps, and took part in the operations of the Desert Column under Sir Herbert Stewart, including the action at Abu Klea and the engagements at Metammeh and Abu Klea Wells (two further clasps to Egypt Medal). Todd-Thornton subsequently transferred to the Dorsetshire Regiment, being promoted Captain on 1 October 1886. Sold with confirmation of entitlement to all four clasps.