Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (F. Cahill. Stkr. H.M.S. “Wye”) edge bruise and pitting, therefore nearly very fine £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Egypt Medals to the Royal Navy.

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Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, February 1997.

Approximately 76 no clasp medals awarded to H.M.S. Wye.

Francis Joseph Cahill was born at Sheerness, Kent, on 2 May 1857 and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker on 9 September 1879. He served in H.M.S. Wye from 28 May 1882 to 13 October 1883, seeing active service in this ship during the Egyptian campaign of 1882, and was discharged dead from remittent fever from H.M.S. Alecto on 11 February 1886.

Sold with copied service record and medal roll extract.