^Lot 12 #12 1882 Egypt Medal Khedive's Star West Kent Reg

Up for auction is a excellent Victorian Medal grouping to a Soldier of the 1st Royal West Kent Regiment, including a 1882 Egypt Medal and Khedive's Star. The Egypt Medal has a nice aged silver patina, with good detailing on obverse and reverse. The obverse depicts Queen Victoria facing leftwards with "Victoria Regina Et Imperatrix" surrounding. The reverse has a large detailed Egyptian Sphinx in center with Egyptian headdress, with "EGYPT" above and "1882" below (some versions do not have the lower date.) The Medal has a swivelling suspension and includes its original worn white and blue striped ribbon. The Medal is correctly named on rim:
"LIEUT. R.A. WILSON 1/ R.W.K.R.”
The Khedive's Star is in good condition, and includes its original worn blue ribbon. The Star has a crescent and Star suspension bar, with Obverse depicting a five pointed bronze star with darkened lacquer patina. The center has a large Egyptian Sphinx with pyramids in background and "EGYPT 1882" above. The lower section reads "Egypt 1882" in Arabic. The reverse has the monogram of Tawfiq Pasha with large crown on top.
This would be an excellent research opportunity on Soldier from the 1st Royal West Kent Regiment that served in Tel El Kebir and The Nile, and would look excellent on display in any Medal collection!

Some History on the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment:
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army based in the county of Kent in existence from 1881 to 1961. The regiment was created on 1 July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, originally as the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), by the amalgamation of the 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot and the 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot. In January 1921, the regiment was renamed the Royal West Kent Regiment (Queen's Own) and, in April of the same year, was again renamed, this time as the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
The 1st Battalion fought at the second battle at Kassassin on 9 September 1882 and at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir a few days later during Anglo-Egyptian War. It then spent two years on garrison duty in Cyprus before being transferred to Sudan, where it fought at the Battle of Ginnis during the Mahdist War. It spent the years up to the outbreak of the First World War on garrison duty, including at Ceylon (together with the 2nd battalion)and Malta.