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Auction: 14002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 169

Pair: Private C. Chapman, Leinster Regiment
Egypt 1882-89, dated, one clasp, Tel-el-Kebir (1903 Pte. C. Chapman. 2/Leinster.); Khedive's Star 1882, unnamed as issued, heavy contact marks, and some pitting to medal from star, therefore nearly very fine, rare to unit (2)

1903 Private Charles Chapman, born Whitechapel, London, 1859; enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Leinster Regiment, April 1879; served on attachment with the Corps of Army Signallers in Egypt, August 1882 to August 1883, and present at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir, 13.9.1882; discharged, April 1891, after 12 years with the Colours.

Chapman was one of only two soldiers from the Leinster Regiment, the other man also attached to the Corps of Army Signallers, to receive the Egypt Medal with clasp 'Tel-el-Kebir'.

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