Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Including a superb collection of medals to the King’s German Legion, Police Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin and a small collection of medals to the Irish Guards

Pair: Private C. W. Davis, Coldstream Guards

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 2 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Suakin 1885 (4683 Pte., 2/Cdm. Gds.); Khedive’s Star 1882, the reverse regimentally impressed ‘4683 C.G.’, minor official correction to surname on first, edge bruising and usual contact marks, otherwise good fine or better (2) £100-120

Charles Woodhouse Davis (or Davies) was born in the Parish of Great Malvern, Worcestershire and enlisted in the Coldstream Guards in July 1879, aged 20 years. Subsequently present in the Egypt operations of 1882, including Tel-el-Kebir, with the 2nd Battalion, he returned to the same theatre of war between February and September 1885, when he was present in the Suakin operations. Davis was discharged to the Army Reserve on his return home, but is known to have ‘improperly enlisted in the 3rd Dragoon Guards at Liverpool on 21 July 1886’, in an effort to claim another ‘Queen’s Pound’.