Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Volunteer Officers’ Decoration (2), V.R. cypher, unnamed, hallmarks for London 1892, complete with top bar (lacking pin); another, V.R. cypher, reverse inscribed, ‘Surgeon Major J. S. Carleton, 1st G.A. Vol. February 1900’, hallmarks for London 1899, with unofficial engraved top bar, good very fine (2) £140-180

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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John Shaw Carleton was educated in Dublin and first gained qualification in Midwifery of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland in 1869 following training at the Coombe Hospital, Dublin. In 1870 he became a L.R.C.P.Irel. and L.R.C.S. Irel. A long time member of the Volunteer movement, having been for 30 years connected to the Newnham Volunteer Artillery, he attained the rank of Surgeon-Colonel with the 1st Gloucester, Royal Garrison Artillery. He died on 10 June 1912, aged 62 years.

With copied birth and death certificates and other research.