Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Surgeon Colonel E. G. McDowell, C.B., 44th Regiment and Army Medical Department, Deputy Surgeon General and Principal Medical Officer in the Soudan Expedition 1884

China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Taku Forts 1860 (Asst. Surgn., 44th Regt.); Egypt & Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 2 clasps, Suakin 1884, El-Teb-Tamaai (Bde. Surgn., A.M. Dept.); Khedive’s Star 1884-6; Order of the Medjidie, 3rd class neck badge, silver, gilt and enamel, the first very fine, otherwise nearly extr emely fine (4) £500-700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to the Essex Regiment from the Collection of Jack Webb.

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Edmund Greswold McDowell was born at Longford on 30 November 1831, appointed Assistant Surgeon on 6 November 1855, and attached to the 44th Foot in November 1858. He served with the 44th Regiment in the campaign of 1860 in North China, including the action of Sinho, and the storm and capture of the Taku Forts (Medal with clasp). He joined the Army Medical Department as Surgeon Major in September 1870, was appointed Brigade Surgeon in August 1881, and served in the Egyptian war of 1882 (Medal, 3rd class of the Medjidie, and Khedive’s Star). He also served in the Soudan Expedition under Sir Gerald Graham in 1884, as Principal Medical Officer, and was present in the engagements at El-Teb and Temai (twice mentioned in despatches, C.B., and two clasps). He was appointed Surgeon Colonel in March 1886, retired in November 1891, and died on 26 July 1907.