Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (Surgeon C. L. Swaine, M.B., 2d Regt. Infy. Hydrd. Con.), together with related miniature dress medal with clasp ‘Burma 1885-7’, extremely fine (2) £300-350

Charles Lethbridge Swaine, who was born at Tirhoot in Bengal in July 1852, studied medicine at Aberdeen University and was appointed a Surgeon on the Madras Establishment in March 1876. Subsequently appointed a Medical Officer to the Hyderabad Contingent, he witnessed active service with the 2nd Infantry Regiment in the Burma campaigns of 1885-89 (Medal & 2 clasps), and was advanced to Surgeon-Major in March 1888. Swaine’s final posting was to the 6th Infantry Regiment as a Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel, following which he was appointed Sanitary Commissioner and Superintendent of Vaccinations in Berar in June 1898, and a Civil Surgeon in the Central Provinces in November 1903. He appears to have retired in July 1907.