Lot 601
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Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel M. Hope, Gordon Highlanders, Egypt, dated, one clasp, Tel-el-Kebir (Maj., 1/Gord. Highrs.); Khedive's Star 1882, unnamed, edge bruising and pitting, generally very fine, mounted as worn (2)

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Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel M. Hope, Gordon Highlanders, Egypt, dated, one clasp, Tel-el-Kebir (Maj., 1/Gord. Highrs.); Khedive's Star 1882, unnamed, edge bruising and pitting, generally very fine, mounted as worn (2)
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Lot Essay

Lieutenant-Colonel Montagu Hope was born in March 1844 and was commissioned into the Gordon Highlanders in December 1862. A Major by the time of the Egypt operations of 1882, he fought with the 1st Battalion at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir and was advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel in October 1885.