Auction Catalogue

5 April 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 316

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5 April 2006

Hammer Price:
£380

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Surgeon E. B. Tuson, 12th Lancers) contemporary engraved naming, contact marks, therefore nearly very fine £250-300

Edward Bailey Tuson was born on 4 March 1819, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the 2nd West India Regiment on 20 August 1844. He transferred to the 53rd Foot in March 1848, to the 9th Lancers in October 1851, and, as Surgeon, to the 12th Lancers in November 1854, serving with that regiment in the Crimea from the 9th May to the 22nd June 1855 (Medal with clasp and Turkish medal). He was appointed to the 17th Foot in November 1862, becoming Surgeon Major in August 1864, and served thereafter on the Medical Staff. He was appointed Deputy Surgeon General in the Army Medical Department in July 1872, retired on half-pay with honorary rank of Surgeon General in March 1879, and died on 3 February 1903.