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Medals from the Collection of Brigadier Brian Parritt, C.B.E.

Brigadier (Retd) B.A.H. Parritt, C.B.E.

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№ 73

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27 June 2007

Hammer Price:
£220

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Surgeon H. P. Jervis, 7th Bombay Infy.) edge bruising, very fine £160-200

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Henry Pruce Jervis was born on 17 June 1855. Studying at the Grant Medical College, Bombay and St. Bart’s, he gained the L.M.S. Bombay, 1877 and the L.R.C.S. Edinburgh, 1877 and L.S.A., 1877. Appointed a Surgeon in the Indian Medical Service on 1 October 1877, he served as Surgeon to the 7th Bombay N.I. during the Burma campaign of 1885-87. He was promoted to Surgeon Major in October 1889 and Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel in October 1897. Retiring on 27 November 1902; he died at New Milton, Hampshire, on 7 February 1927.