Auction Catalogue

25 February 1998

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Arts Club  40 Dover St  London  W1S 4NP

Lot

№ 148

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25 February 1998

Hammer Price:
£370

East and Central Africa 1897-99, 1 clasp, Uganda 1897-98 (Major S. T. Avetoom, I.M.S.) good very fine and scarce £400-450

Sarkies Thaddeus Avetoom was born on 4 December 1854 in Calcutta. His family were Armenians who had fled from Turkey to escape persecution. He studied medicine at Calcutta Medical College and later at St Thomas’s Hospital in London between 1876 and 1881. He joined the Indian Medical Service in 1881 and served with the 27th Bombay Native Infantry in Egypy (Medal with clasp for Suakin 1885), and in Burma in 1887.

In July 1888 he was appointed to the medical charge of the 127th Baluch Light Infantry, doing duty in the Shan States suppressing dacoit bandits (Medal with clasp for Burma 1887-89). In April 1897 he accompanied the regiment to Mombassa in East Africa where it was employed against mutinous Sudanese troops (Medal with clasp). He retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in August 1901, and died in Chichester on 7 April 1945. Sold with comprehensive research.