Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private F. Date, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 2 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, The Nile 1884-85 (1681. Pte. F. Date. 2/.D Of C: L.I.) clasp carriage refurbished; Khedive’s Star, 1882, unnamed as issued, generally very fine (2) £140-£180

Frederick William Date was born in Hampshire, and was a bookbinder by trade. He attested for the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry at Aldershot in February 1881. Date served with the 2nd Battalion in Egypt, July 1882 - March 1886, and was discharged as ‘Medically unfit’, 8 June 1886.