Description
Khedive’s Sudan Medal, 2 bars, The Atbara, Khartoum, 2435 Private Joseph Tait, 1st Cameron Highlanders.
Engraved in usual style: “2435 PTE TAIT 1 CAM HIGHrs”
With copy service papers.
Served:
Home, 22nd Jan 1891 – 19th Feb 1892
Malta, 20th Feb 1892 – 18th Feb 1895
Gibraltar, 19th Feb 1895 – 3rd Oct 1897
Egypt, 4th oct 1897 – 18th March 1899, Service in Egypt and Sudan War
Home, 19th March 1899 – 14th Feb 1900
South Africa, 15th Feb 1900 – 20th June 1902, Service in Boer War.
Home, 21st June 1902 – 21st Jan 1901.
Campaigns served: “Nile Expedition 1898, battles of ‘The Atbara” “Khartoum’
South African War, Battle of Johannesburg.”
Medals earned: “Queens Sudan Medal, The Khedive’s Egyptian Sudan Medal & Clasps ‘The Atbara’ ‘Khartoum’,
South African Medal and clasps Johannesburg, Cape Colony, Orange Free State,
King’s SA Medal & Clasps SA 1901 and SA 1902.”
Joseph Tait, born in Whitsome, Berkwickshire, circa 1869.
22 Year old Porter when he attested at Edinburgh for the Cameron Highlanders on 22nd January 1891.
Son of Mr William Tait, Chirnside, Berwickshire.
Attested for service on 22nd January 1891.
2nd March 1891 found absent, rejoined and awaiting trial and imprisoned on 26th March 1891.
Found absent again on 2nd Nov 1891, imprisoned on 16th November 1891 for 42 days.
27th February 1895, Tried by Regimental Court Martial for Drunkenness on duty and sentenced to 28 days imprisonment and hard labour and fined £1.
According to his death certificate in his service records:
He died in Ardoch, Perth, on 15th June 1949 aged 80 at 11 A.M. about twenty yards from the crossing of the main railway line at the Brick House Railway Cottage.
He had been “Accidentally Struck by a Railway Train.”
