Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private T. W. Robbins, Royal Marines

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, El-Teb (Pte., R.M.); Khedive’s Star, 1884, the first with contact marks, about very fine, the second rather better (2) £250-300

Thomas William Robbins was born at Clifton, Bristol in May 1862 and enlisted in the Royal Marines as a Private in July 1881. Landed from H.M.S. Euryalus for service in the R.M.L.I. at El-Teb, he next joined the Alexandra and returned home to Portsmouth via Hong Kong. Robbins was ‘discharged dead’ from the Asia on 22 July 1889.