Three: Surgeon Captain E. J. Biden, Royal Navy

China 1900, no clasp (St. Surgn., R.N. H.M.S. Orlando); British War Medal (Surg. Commr. R.N.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp (Staff Surgeon, H.M.S. Scout 1896) nearly extremely fine and scarce (3) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to Naval Surgeons.

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Edward James Biden was appointed Surgeon in August 1881 and served aboard H.M.S. Opal during the Niger Expedition in 1883, under Captain A. T. Brooke, in the affair with the Igah and Aboh natives, and at the punishment of the Solomon Islanders in 1886. He was appointed Staff Surgeon in August 1893 and served aboard Scout in the Red Sea during the Dongola Expedition in 1896 (Khedive’s Medal). He served in China during 1900 as Staff Surgeon of Orlando (Medal), and retired in December 1904.