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Egypt, Boer War group to Staff Serjeant-Major T. Wilkin, Army Service Corps, late Commissariat and Transport Corps
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, The Nile 1884-85 officially named to: 4922 L/Corp., C. T. Corps
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal officially named to: 4912 S. Qr. Mr Sjt., A.S.C.
King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps officially named to: 4912 S. Serjt.-Maj., A.S.C.
Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII. R. officially named to: 4912 St.-Serjt-Maj., A.S.C.
Khedive’s Star 1884, unnamed,
Contact marks, slight edge bruising, good fine and better
Thomas Wilkin was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire. A Baker by occupation, he attested for the Commissariat and Transport Corps on 6 July 1883, aged 19 years, 3 months. With the C. & T.C. and A.S.C. he served in Egypt, August 1884-August 1885; Gibraltar, December 1893-January 1897 and South Africa, October 1899-May 1903. Awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal in 1903. He attained the rank of Staff Serjeant-Major in May 1900 and was discharged with a pension on 30 April 1907. He returned to duty at that same rank on 7 June 1915 but was discharged as no longer physically fit on 19 October 1917. This is his total medal allotment as he didn’t qualify for WWI service.