Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

South Africa 1834-53 (Asst. Surgn. E. D. Allinson. Rl. Arty.) fitted with silver ribbon buckle, good very fine £300-£400

Edward Dawson Allinson was born on 25 December 1825, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Ordnance Medical Department on 31 May 1847; Staff Surgeon, 2nd Class, 2 October 1857. He died at Dharwar, Bombay, on 3 December 1859. Not shown on Everson’s roll for South Africa medal under either Royal Artillery or Ordnance Medical Department but is on roll for Indian Mutiny medal as Staff Surgeon serving with 8/14 R.A. He is commemorated on a memorial stone in St Andrew’s Churchyard, Dacre, Cumbria, “Edward Dawson Allinson, Staff Surgeon, Royal Artillery”.