Auction Catalogue

31 March 2010

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 781

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31 March 2010

Hammer Price:
£1,000

The C.B. and Boer War medal awarded to Colonel Edward North, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge converted for neck wear but complete with original bar suspension and ribbon buckle, silver-gilt and enamels; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (Lt. Col. E. North, R.A.M.C.) together with mounted set of two miniature medals, nearly extremely fine (4) £800-1000

Edward North was born at Ropley, Southampton, on 18 December 1856. Appointed a Surgeon in the Army Medical service on 6 March 1880, he qualified F.R.C.S. Ed. in 1888, and became Surgeon-Major R.A.M.C. in March 1892. Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in March 1900, he was granted local rank of Colonel whilst in charge of a General Hospital in South Africa, 24 January 1901, and whilst serving in Mauritius, 20 December 1902. He served in South Africa 1899-1901, including the relief of Kimberley, and was mentioned in Lord Roberts’ despatch of 2 April 1901 (Queen’s medal and 7 clasps). Promoted to Colonel in July 1906, North retired in August 1910, but was re-employed during the Great War from 21 May 1915 (C.B. 1917). Colonel North died on 6 June 1927.