Orders, Decorations and Medals

China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Taku Forts 1860 (Asst. Sgn. Chas. Lee, H.M.S. Coromandel I.N.) officially impressed naming, nearly extremely fine £350-400

Charles Lee, the son of Quartermaster Thomas Lee, Coldstream Guards, and Rose Lee, was a native of Knightsbridge, Middlesex, England, where he was born in April 1830, and later baptized on 16 July 1830, at St-Martins-in-the-Fields, Westminster, London. After education and training in surgery (M.R.C.S. 1852), he was recommended for an appointment as an Assistant Surgeon in the East Indies (Madras Establishment) by Colonel Ely Wigram, late Coldstream Guards, and of Grosvenor Square – who was a brother officer who had served with the father of Charles Lee in the same regiment. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Madras Army on 11 September 1852. On 18 February 1854, Thomas Lee (Assistant Surgeon, Madras Army) married Mary Martha Spring Sherman at Secunderabad (the Cantonment adjacent to Hyderabad). Charles served with the Madras Army in India and later in China (attached to Indian Navy ship Coromandel) as an Assistant Surgeon with the Madras Army through to resigning from the service on 1 August 1864. He is recorded as having died on 29 April 1888. With copied notes.