Pair: Petty Officer T. Wright, Royal Navy, who served in the Naval Brigade at Tel-El-Kebir

Egypt 1882-89, dated reverse, 3 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Suakin 1884, Suakin 1885 (T. Wright. A.B. H.M.S. “Carysfort”); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed as issued, pitting from star, nearly very fine and scarce (2) £300-£400

Provenance: Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996 (when sold without the Khedive’s Star).

Twenty-eight seamen and marines from H.M.S. Carysfort formed part of the Naval Brigade at the Battle of Tel-El-Kebir.

Thomas Wright was born in Limehouse, Middlesex, on 7 November 1860. He entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Fisgard on 29 February 1876 and subsequently served aboard H.M. Ships Boscawen (1876-77), where he was advanced Boy 1st Class in March 1877; then to Warrior from 1877-78; to Carysfort as an Ordinary Seaman in November 1878, where advanced to Able Seaman in February 1881 and to Leading Seaman in March 1885 and paid off of 17 June 1886. He joined H.M.S. Temeraire as a Petty Officer 2nd Class (2nd Captain of the Forecastle) in November 1887 until October 1888. He was drafted to H.M.S. Canada as a Petty Officer 1st Class from 1889-92 and to Caledonia from 1994-96), and was invalided from the service with epilepsy on 10 April 1896, before reaching pensionable time.