Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (1517 Pte. P. Queen, 1/Cam’n. Highrs.) clasp later added, good very fine £100-140

Peter Queen was born in Old Monkland, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. A Labourer by occupation and a member of the 4th Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, he attested for the Cameron Highlanders at Glasgow on 3 March 1883, aged 19 years. He served in Egypt from 2 December 1885 and was present in operations on the Upper Nile, 1885-86. He was killed in a railway accident at Cairo, 26 October 1886. The regimental history further states he was ‘killed by a fall from a train at Boulac Dacroor’. With copied service papers. Clasp on medal incorrect.