AN EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN PAIR TO LIEUTENANT H D N MANSEL - PLEYD...

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£360

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)
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.