Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Vety. Surgn. R. F. Frost, Army Vet. Dept.) minor edge bruising, good very fine £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Veterinary Surgeons and the Army Veterinary Corps.

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Robert Francis Frost was born in 1848 and graduated from the Royal College in London in 1870. Commissioned in January 1871, he was promoted to Veterinary Surgeon 1st Class in January 1883 and to Veterinary Major in January 1893. He served in the Burma Expedition of 1885-87 and in South Africa, August 1895-February 1900. In 1896 he was promoted to the post of Senior Veterinary Officer with his headquarters at Pietermaritzburg. Frost retired on 10 February 1900 and died at home in Dublin on 28 August 1909. With copied service notes.