Auction Catalogue

6 December 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 6

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6 December 2006

Hammer Price:
£750

Six: Major C. J. Addison, Royal Army Medical Corps, afterwards Merchant Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Surgeon, A.M. Dept.); India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (Major, R.A.M.C.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Major, R.A.M.C.); British War and Mercantile Marine Medals (Charles J. Addison); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed, mounted court style as worn, first pitted, nearly very fine and better (6) £550-650

Charles James Addison was born at Wyke Regis, Weymouth on 17 March 1854. He was appointed Surgeon, afterwards Surgeon-Captain in February 1881, promoted to Surgeon-Major, afterwards Major, in February 1893. He retired from the Army with a gratuity in November 1900. During the Great War Major Addison served in the Merchant Navy. Sold with a post-Great War portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform wearing medal ribbons. See lot 1176 for the recipient’s miniature medals.