Orders, Decorations and Medals

Hong Kong Plague 1894 (W. E. Crowe) nearly extremely fine £1200-1500

W. Edward Crowe is listed in The Whitewash Brigade as a ‘Government Analyst and Apothecary. Responsible for disinfecting Taipingsham after it had been closed and in general fumigation of the whole of the Chinese houses in the city.’ He had come out to the Colony in 1883, being appointed Apothecary at the Government Civil Hospital.

He was one of those ‘.... volunteers [whose names should] be published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette; that they receive the hearty thanks of the Government for their very valuable services, and that a report may be forwarded to the Right Honourable The Secretary of State for the Colonies calling his attention to their conduct.’ (ref: Minutes of the Permanent Committee of the Sanitary Board, 18 September 1894, and Hong Kong Daily Press, 27 September 1894).