Auction Catalogue

17 & 18 September 2009

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1103

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18 September 2009

Hammer Price:
£1,900

Pair: Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets James Vaughan, Royal Navy

China 1842 (James Vaughan, Surgeon, H.M.S. Calliope); Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued, good very fine (2)
£1000-1200

James Vaughan served in China as Assistant Surgeon of Algerine, and was wounded at the capture of Canton in 1841; and afterwards as Acting Surgeon of Calliope (Medal). He was Surgeon of Cressy during the operations in the Baltic Sea in 1854 and 1855 (Medal). Vaughan was promoted to Fleet Surgeon in March 1862, to Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets (Retired) in December 1871.