Special Collections

Sold between 7 March & 22 September 2006

3 parts

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The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick

David Riddick

Lot

№ 159

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22 September 2006

Hammer Price:
£880

Pair: Surgeon J. H. Acheson, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (J. H. Acheson, Surgn.); St. Jean d’Acre 1840, silver (J. H. Acheson, Surg.), fitted with a silver ring and straight bar suspension, good very fine (2) £800-1000

Surgeon J. H. Acheson served aboard H.M.S. Edinburgh in the operations on and off the coast of Syria in 1840.