Orders, Decorations and Medals

Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Busaco, Albuhera, Vittoria, Nivelle (E. Graham, Asst. Surgn. 31st Foot) edge bruise, otherwise very fine £1200-1500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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Edward Smith Graham (known as Edward Graham prior to 1825) was appointed a Hospital Mate, General Service, on 21 December 1809, and as Assistant Surgeon to the 31st Foot on on 18 October 1810. He served in the Peninsula from January 1810 to the end of the war, including the battles of Busaco, Albuhera, Vittoria, Pyrenees, and Nivelle. He was with the detachment of the 31st Foot on board the unfortunate East Indiaman Kent, which was burnt in the Bay of Biscay on 1 March 1825. Shortly after this incident, in September 1825, Graham was appointed as Surgeon to the 75th Foot, having qualified as M.D. at St Andrew’s the previous year. He transferred as Surgeon to the 4th Dragoons in July 1841, and retired on half pay in October 1846.