Lot 985: Sold for £400 hammer

Estimate £300-£500

A Khedive's Sudan medal awarded to 4280 Lce Corporal D Cooper 1st Royal Warwickshire Regt with original ribbon and two bars for Khartoum and The Atbara, also The Queens Sudan medal. (2) Provenance - David Cooper was posted to the Royal Warwickshire regiment as private 4280 on the 6th July 1894. He went to Malta in November 1895 and was then posted to Egypt on the 21st Jan 1897. While in Alexandra he was sentenced to eighty four days imprisonment for striking an officer, after which his conduct was good but was demoted to a private. He was promoted to Corporal on the 1st January 1901. He suffered ill health (details included) and was finally discharged from the army on the 3rd of July 1910 after completing sixteen years.

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Good slight edge dents to the Queens medal

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