Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Kaisar-i-Hind group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Grant, Indian Medical Service

Kaisar-I-Hind, V.R., 2nd class, silver, complete with top bar (lacking pin fitting); India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (Surgn. Lt., I.M.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col.), mounted as worm; Nepal, Order of the Star of Nepal, 3rd Class breast star, silver-gilt and enamel, in case, minor enamel damage, good very fine (5) £800-900

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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John Weymiss Grant was born on 5 April 1869. He qualified as a M.B., C.M. 1892. D.P.H. 1893, Aberdeen. Entering the Indian Medical Service as a Surgeon Lieutenant in July 1894, he served on the N.W. Frontier in the relief of Chitral in 1895. He was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind 2nd Class on 23 May 1900. Grant attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in July 1914 and served during the Great War. He was awarded the Order of the Star of Nepal 3rd Class in November 1920 and retired in October 1924.