Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Surgeon Major-General C. H. Giraud, Army Medical Department

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Staff Asst. Surgeon); China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Taku Forts 1860 (Asst. Surgn., 31st Regt.); South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Surgn. Maj., A. M. Dept.) contact marks, nearly very fine and better (3) £1000-1200

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 Hervè Giraud was born in Sevenoaks, Kent on 30 November 1834. Appointed a Staff Assistant Surgeon on 10 March 1858, he served in the latter part of the Indian Mutiny, seeing action at Sissea Ghat. Transferred to the 31st Regiment in December 1858 he then saw service in the China War of 1857-60, being present at Sinho and the storming of Tangku. Remaining in China, Giraud served in operations against the Taiping Rebels, 1863-64, being present at the storming and capture of walled towns of Kading, Nagao, Cholin and Tsin-poo, the relief and recapture of Kading and the taking of the stockade at Nan-si-ang. Promoted to Surgeon in March 1868 and Surgeon-Major in April 1873, he next served in the Zulu War of 1879 and was still in South Africa at the time of the First Boer War 1881 when he served as a Sanitary Officer. Further promotions followed, attaining the rank of Surgeon Major-General in January 1894. He retired from the service in 1896 and died on 10 May 1918. Sold with copied service details.