A Small Collection of Ashanti Star Groups

Three: Surgeon-Major J. W. Beatty, Army Medical Department

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Surgeon J. W. Beatly [sic]. A.M. Dept.); Ashanti Star 1896, unnamed as issued; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, mounted for wear, good very fine (3) £500-£700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Ashanti Star Groups.

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Colonel Riddick Collection of medals to the Medical Services, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2006 (when sold without the Khedive’s Star).

John William Beatty was born in Dublin on 15 June 1857 and qualified as a M.D. at the R.U.I. He entered the Army Medical Department as a Surgeon, afterwards Surgeon-Captain in July 1881 and was promoted to Surgeon-Major in July 1893. He saw service in the Egypt campaign of 1882 and the Ashanti expedition of 1895-96, and was placed on Retired Pay on 14 June 1899.

Sold with copied research.