Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Malakand 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (Captn: E. A. R. Newman. M.B. I.M.S.) good very fine, scarce £400-500

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2010.

Ernest Alan Robert Newman was born in 1867, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel J. Young, and was educated at Haileybury College; Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He joined the Indian Medical Service as a Surgeon Lieutenant on 29 July 1893, and was promoted Surgeon Captain on 29 July 1896. Attached to the 45th (Rattray’s) Sikhs, he served on the North West Frontier, Malakand, 1897-98, including defence of Malakand, relief of Chakdara, action at Landakai, operations in Bajaur and in Mamund country (Medal and two clasps). He also served in the Tirah Campaign of 1897-98, including the operations in Bara Valley (Clasp).

Promoted Major on 30 January 1905, and Lieutenant-Colonel on 30 January 1913, Newman served during the Great War as Superintendent Medical School and Civil Surgeon, Dacca, Bengal, and was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire on 3 June 1918. He was the author of Manual of Aseptic Surgery, 1906, and Irrigation Cataract Extraction, 1933. He retired on 29 July 1923, and in retirement was a Consulting Opthalmic Surgeon for Rutland County Council. He died on 2 March 1943.