Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Ast. Apoy. H. R. H. Dolby, Bo. S.M.D.) very fine £100-£140

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 1999.

Harry Robert Heath Dolby, also known as Robert Henry Dolby, was born in Chunar, Bengal, India, on 28 April 1848. He was appointed Sub Assistant Apothecary in the Bengal Subordinate Medical Department on 16 July 1867, and was advanced First Grade Apothecary on 19 May 1887. He was commissioned Senior Assistant Surgeon with the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant in the Subordinate Medical Department on 19 October 1896, and was promoted Honorary Captain on 1 November 1899, and Honorary Major on 26 June 1901. He retired on 28 April 1903, retaining the honorary rank of Major, and died in Battersea, London, in March 1914.