Pair: Captain R. Henley, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Capt., 3/K.R. Rif. C.); Khedive’s Star 1882, good very fine (2) £180-220

Robert Henley was born on 10 June 1851 and was appointed Ensign by purchase in May 1870. He joined the 1st Battalion, K.R.R.C. in Canada in August 1870, arriving too late to take part in the Fenian Raid operations of that year. Returning to England in December 1876, he was promoted Captain in October 1880 and was posted to the 3rd Battalion in South Africa in February 1881. The 3rd Battalion were at the time engaged in the 1st Boer War and, by the time Henley joined them on the 23rd of February, had just suffered defeat at the battle of Ingogo River. He remained in South Africa for one year and, in July 1882, the battalion was posted to Egypt on active service. Henley was present at the action at Kassasin on 9 September 1882, and at the battle of Tel-El-Kebir on 13 September. He became Major in June 1885, but saw no further active service and died in Hampshire of acute peritonitis on 21 March 1889. He is commemorated on a brass memorial tablet in Winchester Cathedral. Sold with further details.