Auction Catalogue

27 June 2002

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 1308

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27 June 2002

Hammer Price:
£2,800

The Egypt campaign pair to Captain C. N. Jones, Connaught Rangers, attached Royal Irish Regiment, killed in action at the battle of Tel-El-Kebir

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Capt., 2/Conn. Rang.); Khedive’s Star 1882, mounted in a contemporary frame with a fine ceramic portrait by Robert Fowlkner, some damage to the frame, otherwise brilliant extremely fine and extremely rare (2) £2000-2500

Captain C. N. Jones was killed in action at the battle of Tel-El-Kebir on 13 September 1882, one of only nine officers killed on that day.