The Gold Kaisar-i-Hind pair awarded to Brevet-Colonel H. E. Deane, Royal Army Medical Corps

Kaisar-I-Hind, V.R.,1st class, gold, complete with top bar; India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Major, R.A.M.C.), mounted as worn, good very fine (2) £900-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

View
Collection

Herbert Edward Deane was born at Hintlesham, Suffolk on 16 July 1860. He entered the Army as a Surgeon, afterwards Surgeon-Captain in July 1882 and was promoted to Surgeon-Major in July 1894, in which rank he served on the N.W. Frontier of India during 1897-98. In 1901 he was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind 1st Class for Public Service in India. Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in July 1902, he was placed on the Retired List in October 1904 and gained a M.D. at Durham in 1905. Re-employed during the Great War, he was awarded the brevet of Colonel on 3 June 1917. Colonel Deane contributed several papers to the J.R.A.M.C. and published Reports on Plague in Calcutta, 1899-1902. As an athlete he made the amateur record as ‘Club Swinger’ at Aldershot on 14 July 1913.