Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Khedive’s Star, 1884, reverse impressed, ‘820 KRR’, good very fine £60-80

Star awarded to 820 Rifleman Demosthenes Thouard, 60th King’s Royal Rifles. Also entitled to the Egypt & Sudan Medal 1882-89, undated, 3 clasps, El-Teb-Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea.

Lance-Corporal 820 Demosthenes Thouard suffered a severe gunshot wound on 19 January 1885 at Metammeh, near Gubat. Sir Percival Marling wrote of this action: ‘I woke up about 11.30 there was a tremendous hot fire, and men were being hit all round. Lance-Corporal Thorward [Thouard] of my Division, was hit in the back whilst I was speaking to him hardly a yard off; Wareham badly wounded in the head; Winter in the face; all close to me.’ (ref. Rifleman and Hussar, by Sir Percival Marling, V.C., p.135).

With a quantity of copied research, including service papers. Also with an original King’s Royal Rifle Corps ‘Old Comrades Association’ invitation card to a ‘Mr Smith’, dated 12 April 1912. The President of the Association is listed as ‘D. Thouard, Esq.’