Orders, Decorations and Medals

Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (Surgeon J. R. Croker, 1873-4.) fitted with floral engraved silver ribbon brooch, good very fine £200-250

John Randal Croker was born on 20 September 1840, and appointed Assistant Surgeon on the Staff, 1 April 1867, and transferred to the Army Medical Department, as Surgeon, on the same date; Surgeon Major, 1 April 1879; retired pay, 30 April 1887; his designated departmental rank was altered to Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel from 1 April 1887, under London Gazette notification of 17 October 1893. He died at Herne Bay on 29 September 1893.

For related Croker family medals see Lots 4, 228, 280, 421 and 424.