Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860 (Surgn. I Lamprey. 67th. Regt.) with contemporary top silver brooch bar, minor edge bruising, good very fine £400-£500

Jones Lamprey was born in Dublin on 16 October 1924 and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon on 7 June 1850 and was posted to the 15th Foot on 8 October 1850, being promoted Staff Surgeon on 2 November 1857. He transferred to the 67th Foot on 24 September 1859, and served with them during the Second China War. He became Surgeon Major, Army Medical Department, on 7 June 1870, and was promoted Deputy Surgeon General on 4 March 1877, and Surgeon General on 14 June 1883. He retired on 16 October 1884, and died on 29 October 1900.

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