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Auction: 25111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 410

Pair: Boatsman A. McDonald, Manitoba Contingent, who was a Métis, the mixed-race Indigenous peoples of the Prairie Provinces

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, The Nile 1884-85 (104. Boatn. A. McDonald. Manitoba Contgt..); Khedive's Star, dated 1884-6, light contact marks to the first, generally very fine (2)

Alexander McDonald was born in 1853 at St Andrews, Manitoba, just west of the Red River, the eldest son of Donald McDonald. He was from a family of Métis heritage and served alongside his brothers John (born 1856) and Donald (born 1860) in the Manitoba Contingent.

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Sold for
£3,500

Starting price
£1200