A Collection of Egypt Medals to the Royal Navy
Foreword
My interests in collecting medals for the Egypt and Sudan Campaigns of the late 19th Century was sparked by my frequent visits to Egypt and finally visiting Qaitbay Fort in Alexandria. I initially aimed to collect an example to each ship with the Alexandria clasp (15 ships) but soon added to the collection where I realised that it would be possible to collect medals to men on all the Royal Navy ships with a H.M.S. prefix (63 ships in total).
This collection has an example to all those ships serving throughout the campaigns, plus two further medals where no ship was named on them (the Humber/Dryad supplementary roll for the Naval Brigade during the Sudanese campaign of 1884; and The Nile Flotilla roll) added for completeness. It also covers all the major actions of the various campaigns in Egypt and the Sudan in which the Royal Navy was present, from the bombardment of Alexandria on 11 July 1882, to the action at Tokar on 19 February 1891. This is the first time a complete collection has been put together (although the Captain Douglas-Morris Collection, from which a couple of the groups in this collection were sourced, came close!).
Neil Howes
October 2024.
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