THE OUTSTANDING SUDAN 1884 YORK AND LANCS N.C.O’S D.C.M. AND OFFICERS ORDER OF MEDJIDIE GROUP. THE D.C.M. WITH A SUPERB CITATION FOR GALLANTRY LEADING THE MARINES DURING THE CHARGE UPON THE TWO-GUN BATTERY AT EL-TEB AND WITH HIS CAPTAIN, UNAIDED ENGAGING THE ENEMY AT THE BATTLE OF TAMAI

DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT MEDAL, V.R. ‘590 CO... DOSSETT. 1/YORK & LANC: R. 29TH.....188’ SUSPENSION POST RE-AFFIXED, AND SUSPENSION LOOSE; EGYPT AND SUDAN 1882-89, 1 CLASP, EL-TEB-TAMAAI ‘590 ..ORPL. D. DOSSETT. 1/YORK & LANC: R:’; KHEDIVE’S STAR 1884, UNNAMED AS ISSUED

EGYPT AND SUDAN MEDAL 1882-89 UNDATED REVERSE CLASP EL-TEB-TAMAI ‘CAPT W TEBBITT 1/YORK & LANC R’, ORDER OF THE MEDJIDIE 4TH CLASS, KHEDIVES STAR DATED 1884-86, UNNAMED AS ISSUED

D.C.M. London Gazette 6 May 1884

D.C.M. awarded for the battle of El-Teb, 29 February and Tamaai on the 13th March 1884. Recommendation submitted to the Queen, 23 May 1884. More details of the actual citation are given in newspapers covering the actual Awards ceremony in July 1884, when 11 Sudan DCM were personally Awarded by the Queen at Victoria Barracks:

‘Corporal David Dossett, 1st York and Lancaster, also received the medal for bravery. After lying under fire on the night of February 12, he and Captain Tebbett, unaided, engaged the enemy on the following morning at Tamai. Corporal Dossett also led the Marines during the charge upon the two-gun battery at El Teb’.

CAPTAIN TEBBITT

William Arthur Tebbitt was born 27th September 1856 in Haverford West, Pembrokeshire, educated at Christ’s College, Brecon and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, commissioned Sub Lieutenant 11th February 1875, he joined the Battalion in Lucknow, India the same year, Lieutenant 12th October 1877, Captain 8th March 1882 appointed Adjutant of the 3rd Battalion 9th March 1882 but returned to the 1st Battalion for the Sudan Expedition 1884………………

THE TWO GROUPS

Dossett group: star/contact wear, naming worn in places and suspension post re-affixed, thus fine, mainly around edges 8/9 and 3/4 o’clock. This group has clearly been proudly worn many a time. However you’d be had pushed to get a better citation for these battles, indeed many of the citations no longer exist. Sold with 13 photographs (a mixture of military and family, some annotated, most in post card form) relating to the recipient’s son Lance-Corporal R. G. Dossett. One annotated by recipient.

Tebbitt group: GVF, light marks from Star. Sold with copies from the Regimental History, copy photographs etc. A rarely seen York and Lancs Company Commander’s medal for El-Teb-Tamai and one of two officers awarded the Order of the Medjidie.

An outstanding pair of groups to N.C.O. and his Captain both connected via D.C,M, recommendation for the battle of Tamai.