Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Private E. Lamb, Dorset Regiment, late Gordon Highlanders

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 clasps, El-Teb-Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85 (802 Pte., 1/Gord. Highrs.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (2366 Pte., 2/Dorset Rgt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2366 Pte., Dorset Regt.); Army L. S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (2366 Pte., Dorset R.); Khedive’s Star 1884, contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise generally very fine (5) £600-700

Edwin Lamb was born in Sherborne, Dorset and enlisted in 39th Brigade in February 1881, aged 18 years. Posted to the Gordon Highlanders that July, he served in the 1st Battalion out in Egypt and the Sudan from November 1882 until September 1885, and was present in the Gordon Relief Expedition and at El-Teb-Tamaai. Having then been transferred to the Army Reserve in February 1887, Lamb rejoined the Colours as a Private in the Dorsetshires that April, in which capacity he served in the 2nd Battalion in South Africa from November 1899 to October 1902, and qualified for the above described Queen’s and King’s Medals and clasps. He had, meanwhile, also been awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal (A.O. of July 1899 refers). He was finally discharged in March 1903; sold with a file of related research.