Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private William Tabb, 2nd Battalion Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 3 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (1195 Pte. W. Tabb, 2/D. of C.L.I.); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed, the first with some pitting from star, otherwise nearly very fine and scarce (2) £600-£800

One officer and 27 other ranks of the 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, were present at Abu Klea as part of the Mounted Infantry Camel Corps.

William Tabb was born in the Parish of St Mabyn, near Bodmin, and enlisted there for the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on 1 May 1879, aged 18. He served overseas at Gibraltar, September 1880 to July 1882; Malta, 14 to 19 July, 1882; Egypt and the Sudan, July 1882 to September 1885. He was transferred to the Army Reserve on return from the Sudan in October 1885 and was finally discharged from the Army Reserve on 1 May 1891. Sold with copied research.