Queen’s Sudan , Khedives Sudan, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (this also correctly engraved)
5138 Pte. A. Gray, 1/Sea. Highrs
Alexander Gray was born in Elgin, a blacksmith by trade, for the Seaforth Highlanders on 2 January 1895, aged 18, serving with the 1st Battalion in Egypt and the Sudan from 5 January 1898 to 26 October 1902. He took part in the Nile Expedition of 1898, and was wounded at the Battle of the Atbara on 8 April 1898.
With copy service papers
India General Service and Boer War pair Captain , Royal Artillery and Staff, killed in action and posthumously mentioned in despatches, Tabaksberg, 29 Jan. 1901. Whilst carrying a vital despatch to another part of the position during the action rode into a Boer  unit and  was surrounded. Called on to surrender he refused and drawing his pistol was shot and killed						


				
