Pair: Deputy Surgeon General Thomas Fraser, 10th Hussars

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Surgn. T. Frazer, 10th Hussars) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, together with companion miniature medals, some contact marks and edge bruising but generally very fine or better (4) £300-350

Thomas Fraser was born at Kirkhill, Inverness-shire, on 8 April 1819. He qualified M.A. at King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1838, and M.D. at Edinburgh in 1845. Fraser was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the 10th Hussars on 16 December 1845, becoming Surgeon on 9 March 1855, and Surgeon Major on 16 December 1865. He served with the 10th Hussars in the Crimea in 1855, including the capture of Tchorgaun, battle of the Tchernaya, and the siege and fall of Sebastopol.

Fraser retired on half-pay with honorary rank of Deputy Surgeon General on 12 May 1875, and was subsequently Surgeon at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 1877 to 1882. His long association with the 10th Hussars enabled him to make an important contribution to Colonel R. S. Liddell’s Memoirs of the Tenth Royal Hussars, for which he received acknowledgement in the following terms: ‘Special thanks are due to Dr. Thomas Fraser, whose service of twenty-seven years in the Tenth constituted him an invaluable authority for its history, and to whose labour in supervising the work it owes whatever of literary merit it may be found to possess.’ Doctor Thomas Fraser died at Exeter on 3 April 1892.