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

№ 335

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5 April 2006

Hammer Price:
£380

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (At. Surgn. G. Andrew, H.M’s 1st Bn. 6th Regt.) contact marks, otherwise very fine £300-350

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 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 died on 19 October 1899.