AN EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN PAIR TO LIEUTENANT H D N MANSEL - PLEYDELL ROYAL FUSILIERS
Egypt Medal with clasp Tel-el Kebir. Correctly engraved to Lieut H B M Mansel Pleydell R FUS
Khedive's Star 1882
Egypt pair swing mounted as worn. However, the ribbons are torn.
Condition GVF (Official correction to 'Pl' in surname)
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£300 - £500
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Hammer price:
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£360 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
Henry
Bingham Morton Mansel-Pleydell was born on the 6th December 1852 at Spetisbury,
Dorset. The son of John Clavell Mansel-Pleydell and Isabel Mansel-Pleydell nee
Colvile.
He
fought in the Egyptian Campaign as a Lieutenant with the Royal Fusiliers
earning the Egypt Medal with clasp Tel-el Kebir. He was promoted to Captain and
posted to Gibraltar, where he contracted Typhoid Fever.
Henry
sadly died ten months later on the 21st February 1886 at Whatcombe, Dorset; he
was 33 years old.
Sold
with an unrelated Delhi Durbar 1911 Medal and miniature.
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