Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private J. Wallace, Gordon Highlanders

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 clasps, El-Teb-Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85 (291, Pte. J. Wallace, 1/Gord: Highrs.); Khedive’s Star 1884, unnamed as issued, contact marks and pitting, nearly very fine (2) £240-£280

John Wallace was born in Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire in 1862. He attested for the Gordon Highlanders at Aberdeen on 29 November 1881 and embarked with them for Malta in March of the following year. He served in Egypt and the Sudan with the 1st Battalion from 7 November 1882 until 30 June 1885, taking part in the Campaign in Eastern Sudan in 1884 and serving with the Nile Expeditionary Force of 1884-85. He returned to Malta via the Cape in September 1885, remaining there for the next three years before further embarking for Ceylon in November 1888. Wallace returned to England in November 1889 and was discharged on 28 November 1893.