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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 47

Three: Major S.E.O´B. Kevill-Davies, Gordon Highlanders
Egypt 1882-89, dated, four clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Suakin 1884, El-Teb-Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85 (Capt: S.E.O´B. Kevill-Davies. 1/Gord: Highrs), light pitting from Star; Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Medjidieh, Fourth Class breast Badge, 75mm including Star and Crescent suspension x 60mm, silver, gold applique and enamel, enamel damage; Khedive´s Star 1882, unless otherwise stated, generally very fine (3)

Major Somerset Edward O´Brien Kevill-Davies (1851-1935), the second son of the Reverend T. Kevill-Davies, of Croft Castle and Wigmore Hall, who was JP, DL and High Sheriff of Herefordshire; commissioned Lieutenant, Gordon Highlanders, 1873; Captain 1881, he took part in the Egyptian war of 1882 with the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, and was present at the battle of Tel-El-Kebir, served in the Soudan expedition in 1884 and was present in the engagements at El Teb and Tamaai (Order of the Medjidieh, 4th Class London Gazette 6.10.1885); he served with the River Column under Major-General Earle during the Nile expedition of 1884-85; Major 1891, retired in May 1899.

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