Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Colour-Sergeant T. Doherty, Royal Marines

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (Corpl., R.M., H.M.S. Orion); British War Medal 1914-20 (Ch. 933 Cr. Sgt., R.M.L.I.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Sergt., No. 933 Ch., R.M.L.I.); Khedive’s Star, 1882, the earlier awards with edge bruising and heavy contact marks, fine or better, the second good very fine (4) £250-300

Thomas Doherty was born at Aldershot, Hampshire in January 1862 and enlisted in the Royal Marines at Chatham as a Drummer Boy in December 1875, aged 13 years. Appointed a Private in May 1881, he served in the Egypt operations of the following year aboard H.M.S. Orion, and, as a recently promoted Sergeant, ashore with a Royal Marine Battalion in the Suakin operations of 1885. Awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in February 1891, and advanced to Colour-Sergeant in July 1900, Doherty was discharged in the following year, when he enlisted in the Royal Fleet Reserve. Recalled by his old corps on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he served at Chatham depot for the duration of the War, his service record also noting that he was employed on construction duties in France between May and August 1918. He was discharged in September 1919.