Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (D. Kernohan, Surgeon) extremely fine £160-200

David Kernohan was born on 16 December 1871. He was educated at Queen’s College, Cork, where he was Senior Prizeman in Anatomy and Physiology; and also at Belfast University, where he was a Gold Medallist in Midwifery. He gained his M.B. at the Royal University of Ireland in 1899, where he also gained the B.Ch. and B.A.O. in the same year. Kernohan went to South Africa during the Boer War, 1899-1902, as a Civil Surgeon in the South African Field Force. Returning home after the war, he gained his degree of M.D. at the Royal University of Ireland in 1903 and settled in London. Dr Kernohan was a member of the British Medical Association and held appointments of Clinical Assistant to the Royal Victoria Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, both in Belfast. He died on 16 March 1934 and was buried in Wandsworth Cemetery. Sold with copied research, copy of Will and photograph of tombstone.