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A Kaisar-i-Hind group of three to Lieutenant-Colonel F. J. Dewes, Indian Medical Services

Kaisar-I-Hind, E.VII.R., 2nd class, silver, complete with brooch bar; India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1887-89, Chin-Lushai 1889-90 (Surgeon F. J. Dewes, I.M.S.); India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Surgn. Captn. E. J. Dewes, I.M.S.), note different initials, good very fine (3) £600-800

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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Frederick Joseph Dewes was born on 3 January 1861. Receiving his medical training at St. Thomas’s, he gained the M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. (London) in 1886. Appointed a Surgeon with the Indian Medical Services on 1 October 1887, he served in Burma 1888-89, on the N.E. Frontier, 1889-90 and on the N.W. Frontier, 1897-98. Promoted to Major in October 1899 and Lieutenant-Colonel in October 1907, he was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind 2nd Class on 1 January 1909. He retired on 12 September 1921.