Pair: Private C. Gibb, Cameron Highlanders, who was wounded in action at the Battle of Atbara on 8 April 1898

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3811 Pte. C. Gibb, 1/Cam: Hdrs.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (3811 Pte., C. Gibb 1 Cam. Highrs.) contemporarily engraved in the usual Regimental style, light contact marks, very fine (2) £500-£700

Charles Gibb was born in Elgin, Morayshire, in 1878 and attested for the Cameron Highlanders at Inverness on 30 June 1896. He served with the 1st Battalion in Egypt and the Sudan from October 1897 to March 1900, and was wounded in action at the Battle of Atbara on 8 April 1898, during which action the Regiment suffered 44 casualties, including 3 officers killed and 1 wounded.

Gibb saw further service in South Africa during the Boer War from March 1900 to October 1902 (also entitled to the Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902). He transferred to the Army Reserve in June 1908, and was discharged on 29 June 1912, after 16 years’ service.

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