Description
Egypt Medal, undated reverse, bar El-Teb Tamaai, 2204 Corporal F. Brooker, 1st Battalion Yorks and Lancs Regiment. Confirmed on the roll fought at both El-Teb and Tamaai Battles.
Officially engraved: “2204 Corpl F. Brooker. York. Lanc. R.”
Confirmed on the medal roll, as entitled to the medal and this clasp.
Pitting to medal from wear alongside Khedive’s Star.
Shown on the 1871 Army Index stationed in Agra, India with the 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot.
The Dual Clasp of El-Teb_Tamaai was a clasp awarded for service in both the Battle of El-Teb in February 1884 and the following Battle of Tamaai fought in March 1884.
At El-Teb the York and Lancaster held the Left side of the Square in the face of the charging enemy.
During this battle Captain Arthur Wilson, of the Royal Navy on attachment as part of the Naval Brigade, was awarded the Victoria Cross.
Arthur protected his guns by engaging the enemy by himself in hand to hand combat, it was noted that the men from the York and Lancasters were the ones who came to his assistance.
His citation reads:
“On 29 February 1884, at the Battle of El Teb, Captain Wilson of HMS Hecla attached himself, during the advance, to the right half-battery, Naval Brigade, in place of a lieutenant who was mortally wounded. As the troops closed on the enemy battery, the Arabs charged out on the detachment which was dragging one of the guns, whereupon Captain Wilson sprang to the front and engaged in single combat with some of the enemy, and so protected the detachment until men of the 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, came to his assistance”
