Orders, Decorations and Medals

Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph O’Brien, mentioned in despatches for services as Regimental Surgeon of the 44th Bengal N.I. during the Naga Expedition of 1879-80

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Naga 1879-80 (Surgn. J. O’Brien, 44th Bengal N.I.) toned, nearly extremely fine £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of India General Service Medals 1854-95.

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Joseph O’Brien was born on 8 January 1844. Educated at Queen’s College, Cork and Ledwick School, Dublin, he gained an M.A. in 1869, M.D. in 1870 and was appointed M.R.C.S. in 1869, L.R.C.P. and S.Ed. in 1870. Appointed an Assistant Surgeon in the Indian Medical Service in 1870, he was promoted Surgeon in 1873. As such he served in the Naga Hills with the 44th Bengal Native Infantry during 1879-80 and was present at the action of Konoma (Despatches GGO 123 and 405 of 1880).

Promoted Surgeon Major in 1882, he was appointed F.R.C.S. Edinburgh in 1887, and promoted Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel in 1896. He retired on an extra pension on 19 August 1898, and died at Instow, Devon on 29 December 1921.