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HMS Carysfort : a Victorian corvette in the Egypt and Sudan campaigns 1882-85. Part II by Peter Duckers When Carysfort left Egyptian waters in Sept. 1882 at the end of …

HMS Carysfort A Victorian Corvette at War 1882-85 (Part 1) by Peter Duckers   Laid down in 1878, HMS Carysfort was one of an unusual class of warships. Known as …

Lt. Col. E. F. David, RMLI : a rapid rise and fall. by Peter Duckers Born in Gosport in 1862, Ernest Frederic David was the son of a Major in …

The last of the Redcoats? The battle of Ginnis, 30th December 1885. by Peter Duckers Medal collectors often seem uninterested in “no bar” medals for campaigns where a number of …

The rarest British medal ? The Naval Engineers’ Good Conduct Medal 1842-46. by Peter Duckers In the first half of the C19th, the Royal Navy only slowly embraced the introduction …

Changing Sides in the Peninsular War The story behind one medal. During the Napoleonic Wars, both France and Britain employed soldiers drawn from the men of their allies, conquests or …

“Sudan 1899” in a Royal Engineers’ medal group.