Pair: Chief Officer T. Carroll, H.M. Coast Guard, late Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Alexandria 11th July (T. Carroll, Chf: Offr. Cst. Gd., H.M.S. “Penelope”); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed as issued, good very fine (2) £200-£240

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2008.

Carroll was presented with his Medal by Queen Victoria at Windsor on 21 November 1882.

Timothy Carroll was born in Deptford, Kent in August 1827 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in August 1845. He subsequently served in H.M.S. Powerful as a Captain of the Foretop from May 1854 to October 1856. Transferring to the Coast Guard as a Boatman in December 1856, he was subsequently one of eight Chief Officers borne on the books of H.M.S. Penelope during the Egypt operations of 1882. Carroll returned to his duties in the Coast Guard at Harwich and was finally placed on the Retired List in April 1885, on which occasion his C.O. presented him with a ‘splendid marble time-piece as a token of regard.’ Having then settled in Ipswich, he died in December 1915.

Sold with copied research, including service record, death certificate and modern day photographs of his gravestone, together with an extract from the East Anglian Daily Times reporting on his funeral (‘The coffin was covered with the Union Jack, on which rested the deceased officer’s sword and cap and the breastplate was inscribed: Timothy Carroll, R.N., died December 1st 1915, aged 89 years’).