South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Civil Surgn. E. H. Hare) nearly extremely fine £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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Evan Herring Hare was born in Putney in 1851. He was educated at Guildford and Westminster, followed by St. John’s College, Oxford and St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School where he qualified as a M.R.C.S. in 1876. Hare was one of the doctors sent out by the National Aid Society to provide medical aid to the combatants in the war between Serbia and Turkey 1876. For his services he was awarded the Serbian Order of Takova. In 1878 Hare became a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries. A year later Hare enrolled as a Civil Surgeon attached to the British force in the Zulu Campaign. In Natal he contracted a fever. After his return to England he opened a medical practice at Kew. In 1887 Hare became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeon. Hare continued in practice at Kew until 1920. He died at 159 Tottenham Lane, North London on 25 April 1932. With copied research.