Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Crimea 1854-56, no clasp (Actg. Surgn. G. H. Rentzsch, Ott. Med. Staff) engraved serifed capitals, claw tightened, heavy contact marks and edge bruising, fine £100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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George Henry Rentzsch served during the Crimea War as an Acting Surgeon attached to the Ottoman Medical Staff. After the war he completed his medical training, gaining the M.R.C.S. in 1857 and L.S.A. in 1859. By 1865 his address was at Haverstock Hill and by 1884 he was living at Leader Street, Chelsea, where he is listed as an Assistant Surgeon to the 1st Middlesex Artillery, and as having been one of the founders of, and a late surgeon to, the Aldershot Infirmary and Dispensary. The 1884 Medical Directory also describes him as being formerly with the Army Medical Service and attached to the Turkish Army. With some copied research.