Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel A. V. Anderson, Indian Medical Service

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Samana 1891 (Surgn., I.M.S.); Delhi Durbar 1903 (Lieutenant Col., I.M.S.) this last with heavy contact marks, nearly very fine, the first good very fine (2) £250-300

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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Alexander Vass Anderson was born on 24 November 1856. He gained the M.B. C.M. in 1880 and D.P.H. 1900. Appointed an Assistant Surgeon on 1 April 1882, he served in the Miranzai Expeditionary Force in 1891. Promoted to Surgeon-Major in April 1894, he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in April 1904. He retired on 19 July 1907 but rejoined the service in India during the Great War, serving from 29 January 1915 to 5 June 1920.