Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Deputy Surgeon General C. C. Dempster, Army Medical Department, attached 46th Foot

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Assist. Surg. Dempster 46th. Regt. 1856) contemporarily engraved naming, with ‘55’ and ‘54’ lightly scratched after year to edge; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (Assist. Surgn. Chas. C. Dempster. Staff.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, plugged, with small ring suspension, edge bruising, very fine (3) £600-£800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 46th Foot and its Successor Units.

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Charles Carroll Dempster was born at Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, on 21 March 1832, and was commissioned Assistant-Surgeon in the 46th Regiment of Foot on 5 May 1854. He served with the 46th in the Crimea from 1854 to 1856; was present at the Siege and Fall of Sebastopol, including both the first and final attacks on the Grand Redan, on 18 June and 8 September 1855; and was Mentioned in Despatches. Transferring to the 24th Foot on 16 January 1857, he served in India during the Great Sepoy Mutiny in the expedition into the Hazara District, and was in medical charge of the Moveable Column from Ferozepore during the pursuit of Tantia Topi (Medal with clasp Central India).

Dempster next transferred as Assistant-Surgeon to the Staff on 6 August 1861, and served in New Zealand during the Second Maori War from 1863 to 1865, being present at the storming and capture of Rangiawhia. For his services in New Zealand he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 14 May 1864), and he was promoted Surgeon on 20 June 1865. He was advanced Brigade Surgeon, Army Medical Department, on 27 November 1879, and transferred to the Half-Pay List as Honorary Deputy Surgeon-General on 23 March 1881.

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