Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Gambia (Lieut: F. J. C. Heffernan. R.A.M.C.) high relief bust, officially engraved naming, good very fine £400-£500

Lieutenant Colonel Francis Joseph Christopher Heffernan, R.A.M.C., died from heat stroke, on July 16, 1917, on active service, in Mesopotamia. He entered the service in 1898, was promoted Captain in 1901, Major in 1910 and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1914. He had previously served in Mauritius, Central Africa, and India, and received a medal for active service on the Gambia, West Africa. He was severely wounded in November, 1916, on board a transport, by a Mohammedan Sepoy, who ran amok. At the time of his fatal illness he was in command of No. 2 British General Hospital at Kut-el- Amara. He was the eldest son of Mr. Mortimer Heffernan, Lowes Green, and is buried in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.

Sold with copied m.i.c. which shows first service in Mesopotamia from 13 April 1917, and entitlement to British War and Victory Medals.