Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Assistant Surgeon J. McKinnell, 73rd Regiment, late Royal Navy

Baltic 1854-55 (John McKinnell, Act. Apt. Surgeon, H.M.S. Orion), engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Asst. Surgn., 73rd Regt.) very fine and better (2) £550-600

John McKinnell was born at Dumfries on 27 April 1833. Studying at Ednburgh he qualified as a M.D. He served on H.M.S. Orion in the Baltic, 1854-55, as an Acting Apprentice Surgeon but was invalided in August 1855. His application to be re-admitted to the Royal Navy in 1858 was turned down. In April 1858 he was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the Staff, thence to the 73rd Regiment in June the same year, returning to the Staff in May 1861. He was placed on Half Pay in June 1863; he died on 9 October 1869. Sold with copied Medical and Royal Naval service papers.