Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel G. Andrew, Army Medical Department attached 12th Foot

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (At Surgn G. Andrew H.M.’s 1st Bn 6th Regt); Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Surgn. Maj: G. Andrews, 1/12th Regt) light contact marks, very fine (2) £500-£700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Simon C. Marriage Collection of Medals to the Suffolk Regiment.

View
Collection

Dix Noonan Webb, April 2006 (I.G.S. only) and J. B. Hayward, June 1972 (Afghanistan only).

George Andrew was born on 5 September 1840, and qualified M.A., King’s College, Aberdeen, 1860, and M.B. 1864. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon on the Staff in March 1865, and to the 6th Foot in July 1866, and served with that regiment in the Hazara campaign of 1868, including the subsequent operations in the Black Mountain (Medal with clasp). He was appointed Surgeon Major in March 1877, and served with the 12th Foot in Afghanistan 1878-80, during the first campaign with the Peshawar Valley Field Force, and during the second campaign with the Khyber Division and Khyber Line Force. He retired as Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel in April 1895, and resided in later life at 37 Westburn Road, Aberdeen. He died in October 1899.

Sold with photographic image of recipient in uniform, and copied research.