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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 94

(x) Pair: Rifleman D. McMahon, King's Royal Rifle Corps

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 3 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Suakin 1884, El-Teb_Tamaai (3698. Pte. D. Mc.Mahon. 3/K.R. Rif: C.); Khedive's Star 1882, unnamed as issued, light contact marks from Star, otherwise very fine (2)


Daniel McMahon was born in 1857 at Kilrea, Derry, Northern Ireland, and attested for the 60th Rifles at Winchester on 30 May 1879. Posted to the 1st Battalion on 15 October 1879, he was briefly stationed at Aldershot and the training ship Balmoral, before serving in Malta and Egypt from 18 July 1882. In Cairo from 30 November 1882, he served 4 days in confinement from 29 March 1883 and was tried by Regimental Court Martial, being later discharged from the 1st Class Army Reserve on 1 July 1895, his conduct noted as 'good'; sold with copied service and medical record.

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£320