Orders, Decorations and Medals

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Surgeon Major E. Fawcett, 1st Madras Infy.) good very fine £160-200

Edward Fawcett was born on 17 March 1847. He qualified as a L.R.C.S.I. and L.K.Q.C.P. in 1868. Entering the Indian Medical Service, he was appointed an Assistant Surgeon in October 1869; a Surgeon in in July 1873; a Surgeon-Major in October 1881 and a Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel in April 1894. He became a F.R.C.S.I. in 1879 and retired from military service in December 1899. Lieutenant-Colonel Fawcett died at Blackheath on 1 November 1923. Sold with some copied service details.