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

Three: Lieutenant-Colonel R. P. Bond, Royal Army Medical Corps

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 clasps, The Nile 1884-85, Gemaizah 1888 (Surgn., Med. Staff), second clasp loose; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Paardeberg, Driefontein (Major, R.A.M.C.); Khedive’s Star 1884-6, unnamed, mounted as worn, minor contact marks, good very fine (3) £550-650

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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Richard Pratt Bond was born on 19 May 1856.

He qualified as a L.R.C.P. (Edinburgh) and M.R.C.S. A Surgeon with the Medical Staff in February 1883, he served in the Nile expedition 1884-85 and in the operations at Gemaizah, 1888 and the Nile, 1889. In 1890 he was based at the Station Hospital at Fort Pitt, Chatham. He was promoted to Surgeon-Major in February 1895 and served in the Boer War, 1899-1900. Attaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in February 1903, he was placed on Retired Pay in 1911. He was re-employed during the Great War as an A.D.M.S. in the U.K.

Sold with original portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform and copied research including roll extract confirming Egypt Medal clasps. For the recipient’s miniature medals, see lot 1177.