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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 90

(x) Pair: Lance-Corporal R. C. B. Winchcombe, King's Royal Rifle Corps

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (4769 -e. R. C. B. Winchcombe. ----Corps.); Khedive's Star 1882 (R. C. B. W. 4769), wear to first, pitting from Star, good fine (2)

Richard Charles Buckle Winchcombe was born on 17 January 1858 at Swyncombe, Oxfordshire, attesting at Winchester for the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 31 May 1881. He served in Egypt with the 3rd Battalion, from 2 August 1882-17 November 1882, reputedly acting as servant and valet to Colonel Redvers Henry Buller and later, Colonel Francis Wallace Grenfell. Returning home, he served as Head Mess Waiter in the Rifle Depot Officers' Mess, purchasing his discharge for £11 on 29 October 1887.

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