Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel John North, India Medical Services
Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Surg., I.M.D.); India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (Surgn. Major, 1st Madras Lcrs.) nearly extremely fine (2) £180-220

John North was born on 27 May 1846. He studied at St Georges, M.R.C.S. 1868; L.S.A. 1869; Assistant Surgeon, 1 October 1869; Surgeon, 1 July 1873; Surgeon Major, 1 April 1881; Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel, 1 July 1893. He served in Afghanistan in 1880 and in Burma 1886-89. He died at Sangana Kulli, Bellary, on 1 October 1897.