Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp (2821 Pte. Brindle 1 Cam. Highrs.) edge bruising, very fine £60-80

William Brindle was born in Kent in 1873 and attested for the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders at London on 28 December 1891, having previously served in the 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Posted to the 1st Battalion, he served with the Highlanders in Egypt and the Sudan from 4 October 1897, and took part in the Nile Expedition of 1898, qualifying for the Queen’s Sudan Medal and the Atbara and Khartoum clasps for his Khedive’s Sudan Medal. He then proceeded with the Regiment to South Africa, and served there during the Boer War from 27 February 1900 (entitled to the Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State, and Transvaal). Invalided to England, he returned home on 25 October 1900, and was discharged on 29 June 1901, after 9 years and 184 days’ service.