Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Surg. J. Crofts, M.D. 29th Ben. N.I.) fitted with silver ribbon buckle, nearly extremely fine £220-260

James Crofts was born on 13 May 1852, and studied at Queen’s College, Cork, and Trinity College, Dublin, qualifying as M.B. M.Ch. T.C.D. in 1874. He was appointed Surgeon on the Bengal Medical Establishment on 31 March 1877, becoming Surgeon Major in March 1889, and Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel in March 1897. He served in Afghanistan with the forces in the Kuram Valley during both campaigns, being present, with the 11th N.I., at the repulse of the enemy’s attack on Ali Khel (Medal). He died at Cork on 7 May 1913. He was the author, with P. A. Weir, of A Medico topographical account of Kota and Jhalawar. With copied research.