Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, E.VII.R., reverse inscribed, ‘Surgn. Major C. J. Hancock, Assam Valley Lt. Horse’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1904, lacks top bar, extremely fine £160-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Charles James Sortain Hancock received his medical training at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and at the University of Durham. He became a M.R.C.S., Eng., 1875; L.R.C.P., Edin. and L.M. 1876; L.S.A., London, 1876; and a M.D. Dunelm, 1900. He went out to India in about 1880 and became the Medical Officer to several of the tea companies in operation there. He was appointed Honorary Surgeon of the Lakhimpur Mounted Rifles on 31 August 1883 - the unit later forming part of the Assam Light Horse. In July 1895 he attained the rank of Surgeon Major; he retired from the Volunteers in about 1902-03. He was awarded the Indian Volunteer Force Officers’ Decoration by the Gazette of India of 14 October 1905. Returning to England, he was latterly the Senior Medical Officer at the Leicester Infirmary, and later at the Fever Hospital. Dr Hancock died at his home in Leytonstone, Essex, on 8 May 1923. Sold with copied research.