Lot Archive

Lot

№ 481 x

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2 December 2009

Hammer Price:
£780

Three: Major W. B. Turnbull, Indian Medical Service

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Waziristan 1901-2 (Captn. I.M.S.) officially re-engraved; Tibet 1903-04, no clasp (Captn., I.M.S.); Edinburgh University Prize Medallion, 51mm., bronze, reverse impressed, ‘Public Health 1892-93 W. B. Turnbull’, very fine and better (3) £650-750

Walter Barrie Turnbull was born in Aberdeen on 2 August 1872. Attending the University of Edinburgh, he gained a M.B. and C.M. in 1893. Entering the Indian Medical Service, he was appointed Surgeon Lieutenant in July 1895, Surgeon Captain in July 1898, and Major in January 1907. He served on the N.W. Frontier, Malakand, 1897-98; operations in Banaur and in Mamund Country, Buner; in China 1900 and in Tibet 1904. Major Turnbull died on 17 November 1907. With copied service and other papers.