Victorian Medal Group of Three to a Naval Officer who Commanded HMS Coquette During the Ashanti Uprising and Later Saw Service During the 1885 Sudan Campaign, Ashantee medal 1873-74, no clasp, officially engraved naming ‘LT COMG W.E. DARWALL R.N. H.M.S. COQUETTE 73-74’, Egypt and Sudan medal 1882-89, 1 clasp Suakin 1885, ‘COMMDR W.E. DARWALL R.N. H.M.S. RANGER’ with Khedive’s Star, obverse dated 1884. Some contact marks on Egypt medal, medals contained in small, glazed frame, not removed for checking but naming is visible. Sold with a large archive of original documents including; 8 hard back photograph albums – mainly family shots with some Naval and Nursing photographs, 1 scrap book containing newspaper cuttings from the 1st decade of the 20th century, put together by Darwall’s youngest daughter, Various photographs including some in Naval uniform, Night Order book for HMS Tyne, covering the period Jan 1886 to March 1887, some water damage and loss to pages, Defence of the Realm permit book for the Dover area, Semaphore and Morse instruction leaflet.illiam Eveleigh Darwall was born in Dover on 13th April 1843, he entered the Royal Navy on 9th October 1856 as a Naval Cadet on H.M.S. Colossus. Midshipman 9th October 1858, Sub Lieutenant 25th April 1862, Lieutenant 21st June 1864, Commander 1st August 1881. He transferred to the Coastguard on 3rd September 1889. uring the Ashantee campaign he succeeded Lieutenant Commanding E.D. Law on 1st January 1874 following Law’s discharge after a Court Martial on 31st December 1873. arwall is confirmed on the medal rolls for all 3 medals and the clasp, this appears to be his full group.illiam Eveleigh Darwell retired with the rank of Captain on 13th April 1893. He died in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Folkestone, on 12rh September 1919 following a cycling accident where was in collision with a taxicab.