Orders, Decorations and Medals

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Looshai (Asst.-Surgn. C. J. W. Meadows, Peshawur Mountn. By.), recipient’s initials engraved, otherwise extremely fine £350-400

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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Charles John Walford Meadows was born on 14 January 1844. Training at Guy’s and Westminster Hospitals, he took the L.S.A. in 1866, M.R.C.S. in 1867 and S.S.C. Cantab. in 1882. Appointed an Assistant Surgeon with the Bengal Medical Establishment on 1 October 1869, Surgeon on 1 July 1873 and Surgeon-Major on 1 October 1881, he attained the rank of Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 April 1895. He served in the Looshai Expedition of 1871-72 and was mentioned in despatches. Lieutenant-Colonel Meadows died at Norwood on 2 August 1899, from the effects of an accident when he was knocked down by a bicycle.