Six: Colonel J. H. E. Austin, Royal Army Medical Corps

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Capt., R.A.M.C.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (Capt., R.A.M.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Major, R.A.M.C.) this last additionally engraved, ‘Attd. 2/Gren. Gds.’; British War Medal 1914-20 (Col.); Coronation 1911, silver, unnamed; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (Captn., R.A.M.C. 1898), mounted court style as worn, clasp carriages reduced for mounting purposes; together with a renamed Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Captain J. H. E. Austin, R.A.M.C. attd. 1/Gren. Gds.) good very fine (7) £700-800

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.

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John Henry Edward Austin was born at Broughton, near Chester on 25 May 1863. Qualifying as a M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. at Edinburgh, he entered the R.A.M.C. as a Surgeon-Captain on 28 July 1891. He served in the campaign in the Sudan under Kitchener in 1898. In the Boer War he took part in the operations in the Orange Free State and in the actions of Biddulphsberg and Wittebergen. For his services he was mentioned in despatches and received special promotion to Major on 29 November 1900. He was advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel in May 1912 and to Colonel in March 1915. Colonel Austin died in London on 26 May 1917 and was buried in East Finchley Cemetery.