Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 5 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Suakin 1884, El-Teb, The Nile 1884-85, Kirbekan (2666 Pte. J. Watt, 1/R. Hrs.) light pitting from star, otherwise very fine £650-750

John Watt was born at Inverwick, Haddington, and enlisted into the 42nd Highlanders at Edinburgh on 31 May 1881, aged 18 years. He served in the Egyptian campaign of 1882, in the Soudan in 1884, and with the Nile Expedition of 1884-85, including the battle of Kirbekan. Private Watt suffered a gun shot wound in the right hand at the battle of El-Teb on 29 February 1884, which, although not too serious, still kept him in hospital until the 2nd May. He left Egypt in April 1886 and served at Malta until June 1887, and thereafter at home until his discharge on 20 May 1893.