Interesting Victorian Egypt Medal +1 to Street 2nd East Surrey Reg.

A very interesting Queen Victoria’s Egypt medal with Suakin clasp and correctly engraved naming to 2027 Private A. T. Street. 2nd East Surrey regiment.
Albert Thomas Street was born in Dorking Surrey on 14th September 1852, son of John and Mary Street, John a Cordwainer (Shoemaker) and Albert was employed as a Clerk before joining the regiment.
He enlisted into the 31st regiment of foot on 28th September 1880 at Reigate Surrey stating his age as 24, but he was really 27 years old. After a period of training and home service he was posted to India in the October of 1881, assigned to the now 2nd East Surrey regiment after the Childers Reforms of 1881. He was a good soldier earning a good conduct strip and a 1d raise in pay on 14th July 1883 and he was shortly after promoted to Lance Corporal in the November the same year being posted to Singapore. But overseas service really did not suit Albert, spending a lot of his time in hospital with Dysentery and fever and was reverted to the rank of Private.
If we now fast forward to 1884, he was posted with his regiment to Egypt and sailed on HMS Himalaya on the 9th of September, arriving at Abbasiyah on the 26th of the same month and later on to Suakin, disembarking on the 24th March 1885, the 2nd expedition.
Following the fall of Khartoum on 26th January 1885, Major-General Sir Gerald Graham led a second expedition in March 1885. This expedition is sometimes referred to as the Suakin Field Force, its purpose was to defeat Mahdist forces under Osman Digna in the region and to supervise and protect the construction of the Suakin-Berber Railway. A week after its arrival in Suakin, the expedition fought in two actions: the Battle of Hashin on 20th March, and the Battle of Tofrek on 22nd March fighting the formidable Dervishes.
After returning home later that year, he was awarded his second good conduct stripe and on the 8th December 1886 he once again embarked for India, this time on HMS Serapis, landing on the 5th January 1887. For some reason Albert did not do well in this type of Climate, especially when he was admitted to hospital with starvation having been lost on the Jungle for nine days, living on just water. He also suffered cuts and sores from sleeping in the trees and all of his nails had fallen out due to malnutrition.
But he recovered and remained in India for another three years suffering considerably from the effects of the climate and spending much time in hospital on several occasions suffering from fever and finally Hepatitis being discharged from the army on 18th December 1892.
From his discharge we lose track of him, however there is a Albert Street with the same date and place of birth in the Dorking Union Workhouse as an inmate in 1911. By this time this was mainly an Infirmary for the poor. It is highly likely that this is Albert, who was probably in ill health after he left the army.
The Egypt medal is in very good order with contact marks to one side, as he is also entitled to the Khedives Star, which was probably mounted with this medal.
It comes with a whole host of copied paperwork including service papers and award rolls etc.

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