Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A C.I.E. group of six to Colonel H. D. Packer, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamel; Queen’s South Africa 1899-19024 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Transvaal, Wittebergen (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Capt., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Lt. Col., R.A.M.C.) extremely fine (6) £650-700

C.I.E. London Gazette 1 January 1920.

Harry Dixon Packer was born in Nottingham on 1 April 1872 and educated at University School, Nottingham and Guy’s Hospital, London. A Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, he was employed as Assistant Medical Officer in the E.R. Asylum, Beverley, E. Yorkshire prior to joining the Army. He was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in January 1899 and was promoted Captain in January 1902, serving in the Boer War in operations in Cape Colony, November 1899-May 1900, in the Orange River Colony, May-August 1900, in the Transvaal, August-November 1900 and November 1900-January 1901, in the Cape Colony during March 1901 and again in the Orange River Colony, March 1901-May 1902. In 1910 he was promoted Major. During the Great War he served in India, August 1914-December 1916 and September 1917-November 1918 and in Mesopotamia, January-September 1917. After the war he served in Afghanistan during May-August 1919. His many services were awarded with the C.I.E. and in March 1923 was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel and in December that same year attained the rank of Colonel. He retired from the service in December 1927.