Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The mounted group of six miniature dress medals named to Major C. J. Addison, Royal Army Medical Corps and Merchant Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Surgeon, C. J. Addison A.M.D.); India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (Surgn. Major C. J. Addison, A.M.S.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Major C. J. Addison, R.A.M.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Major C. J. Addison, P.& O.S.N. Co.); Mercantile Marine Medal 1914-18, unnamed; Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed, mounted court style as worn, nearly very fine and better (6) £280-320

Charles James Addison was born at Wyke Regis, Weymouth on 17 March 1854. He was appointed Surgeon, afterwards Surgeon-Captain in February 1881, promoted to Surgeon-Major, afterwards Major, in February 1893. He retired from the Army with a gratuity in November 1900. During the Great War Major Addison served in the Merchant Navy. With a copied photograph of the recipient in uniform; with some copied research.