Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Surgeon John Kay, Royal Navy, latterly Deputy Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (John Kay, Surgn.); St. Jean d’Acre 1840, silver, unnamed, plugged, fitted with a ‘stirrup’ suspension, both with silver buckles, second with some contact marks, very fine and better (2)
£800-1000

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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John Kay, appointed an Assistant Surgeon, Royal Navy in May 1811; promoted to Surgeon in December 1825. Served aboard H.M.S. Princess Charlotte during the operations on and off the coast of Syria, 1840. Appointed Deputy Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets in January 1842. Retiring from the Royal Navy in 1846, Surgeon Kay died at his home at Elliott Place, Newtown, Gosport, Hampshire on 1 October 1875. With copied research.