Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Surgeon-Major J. J. McCarthy, Army Medical Department

China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860 (Staff Asst, Surgn.) ; Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Surgn. Maj., A.M.D.); France, Second Empire, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, gold and enamel, some enamel damage to last, nearly very fine, medals with slight contact marks, very fine and better (3) £700-800

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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James Joseph McCarthy was born in Killarney on 27 April 1835. He gained his medical degree from the R.U.I. in 1858 and was appointed a Staff Assistant Surgeon on 16 November 1858. As such, he served in the China War during 1860-62 and was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1862. Promoted to Surgeon in November 1858 and Surgeon-Major in October 1873, he served in the Afghan War during 1878-79. McCarthy retired with the honorary rank of Brigade Surgeon on 5 December 1883.