PRIVATE A. COOPER, 1ST BATTALION YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. Egypt Medal 1882-89, undated reverse,

PRIVATE A. COOPER, 1ST BATTALION YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. Egypt Medal 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (officially named, engraved in sloping serifed upper and lower case capital letters and numbers: 2094 Pte. A. COOPER. 1/ YORKS: R.). Attractively toned, Almost Extremely Fine to Extremely Fine.

Medal accompanied by copied medal roll extract confirming medal without clasp and copied Khedive’s Star roll, the latter dated War Office, 1st August 1887, recording Cooper as being by then transferred to the “Army Reserve”

Awarded for the battle of Ginniss, 30th December 1885, which took place outside the village of Ginniss on a bend in the Nile, within sight of the pyramids. Prior to the battle the men of the Yorkshire regiment were ordered to discard their khaki uniforms and put on their red tunics, the regimental history recording that this was done “so as to look more formidable in the eyes of the Dervishes”. This was the last occasion on which British troops fought wearing red tunics.