Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Punjab 1848-49, 1 clasp, Mooltan (Asst. Surgn. J. Williams, 7th Irregular Cavy.) engraved correction to last letter of surname, otherwise good very fine £400-450

John Williams was born in December 1820, qualifies as M.R.C.S. in 1841, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon on the Bengal Medical Establishment on 19 June 1847, having gained his commission as a prize at the Royal College of Surgeons on the nomination of Sir J. Hogg. He served with the 7th Irregular Cavalry throughout the 1st and 2nd sieges of Mooltan in 1848 and 1849 (Medal with clasp), and also under Sir Colin Campbell, K.C.B., against the Hill Tribes in the neighbourhood of Peshawur. He was appointed F.R.C.S. in 1859, becoming Surgeon in February 1861, and Surgeon Major in June 1867. He retired in December 1870, and died at Redlands, Bristol, on 21 May 1878.