Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. To coincide with the OMRS Convention

The Boer War medal awarded to Doctor D. Kernohan, a Civil Surgeon in South Africa

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (D. Kernohan, Surgeon) official correction to one letter of surname, otherwise extremely fine £120-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to Civilians from the Collection of John Tamplin.

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David Kernohan was born on 16 December 1871, probably in Ballymena, County Antrim. He was educated at Queen’s College, Cork, where he was Senior Prizeman in Anatomy and Physiology, and of which he was a Scholar; and also at Belfast where he was a Gold Medallist in Midwifery. He gained his M.B. at the Royal University of Ireland in 1899, where he also became a B.Ch. and a B.A.O. in the same year.

After service in South Africa as a Civil Surgeon during the Boer War, Kernohan returned to England and settled in London, where he remained until his death on 16 March 1934, aged 62.