Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (Sergn. C. S. Cronin. Medl. Staff) cleaned, very fine £200-£240

Cecil Spencer Cronin was born in Dublin on 11 December 1858, and was commissioned Surgeon, Indian Medical Staff, on 28 July 1886. He served in Burma during the Third Burmese War at the Station Hospital, Bhano, from 16 April 1888 to 18 May 1889, and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 15 November 1889: ‘Surgeon C. S. Cronin, Medical Staff, has also earned mention in this despatch by his devotion to duty and care of the wounded.’) He died at Ranikhet on 29 July 1890.