Pair: Drummer J. Nobbin, Grenadier Guards

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (...mr. J. W. Nobbin, 3/...) ; Khedive’s Star 1884-6, unnamed as issued, suspension claw re-affixed on first, extremely heavy pitting from star obscuring naming, about fair (2) £80-£120

John William Nobbin was born in Forest Gate, London, in 1867 and attested for the Grenadier Guards at Westminster Police Court on 21 October 1881, aged 14. He served as a Drummer with the 3rd Battalion in Egypt and the Sudan, and having transferred to the Permanent Staff of the 6th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, was discharged on 26 October 1902, after 21 years and 6 days’ service.

Sold with copied research which shows that a man of this name with the same place of birth (although with a somewhat later date of birth) served with the Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine during the Great War, and received a 1914-15 Star Trio and a Mercantile Marine War Medal.