Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Surgeon-Major J. D. Crawford, 1st Bengal Irregular Cavalry

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (Asst. Surgn. J. D. Crawford, 1st Bengl. Irrr. Cavy.); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Surgeon J. D. Crawforn, 1st Irregular Cavy.) naming officially engraved in fine running script, small test mark and edge bruise to the last, otherwise nearly extremely fine (2) £400-450

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late Alan Wolfe.

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John Duncan Crawford was born 20 April 1824 and graduated B.A and M.B. from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1846. He was appointed an Assistant Surgeon in the Bengal Army on 11 August 1846, and to the 1st Bengal Irregular Cavalry in October 1850. He served with this unit in the expedition under Colonel Sydney Cotton to the villages of Dabb, Sadin and Shah Mansur Khel, on the North West Frontier, in August 1854, and during the Indian Mutiny of 1857-59. He was appointed Surgeon in the Army on 11 December 1859, was placed in medical charge of the 2nd Bengal Cavalry in September 1864, and was promoted to Surgeon Major on 11 August 1866. He died at Dharmsala on 16 May 1871.