Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Tamaai (G. R. Nix, Gunr., R.M.A., H.M.S. Euryalus) contact marks and bruising, fine £180-220

47 ‘Tamaai’ clasps to H.M.S. Euryalus and rarer still as a single clasp.

George Robert Nix, who was born in Woolwich in March 1863 and joined the Royal Marine Artillery in April 1881, was landed from H.M.S. Euryalus for service with the Naval Brigade in 1884, when he was present at the battle of Tamaai. Afterwards removing to the Agamemnon, he was still serving in that capacity at the time of his death in Malta from enteric fever in May 1888.