A Collection of Medals to Veterinary Surgeons and the Army Veterinary Corps

Three: Colonel T. G. Peacocke, Army Veterinary Department

India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (Vety. Ltt. Army Vety. Deptt.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Col.); Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed, very fine and better (3) £450-550

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Veterinary Surgeons and the Army Veterinary Corps.

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Thomas George Peacocke was born on 10 June 1865 and qualified as a Veterinary Surgeon at Edinburgh University on 28 April 1886. He entered the Army Veterinary Department as a Veterinary Lieutenant in 1891 and served in India from September 1891 and went on into the Indian Establishment in May 1896. Veterinary Lieutenant Peacocke served in the Chitral Relief Force in 1895 and was Officer Commanding the Remount Depot, Sharanpore in March 1898. Promoted to Veterinary Captain in 1901, Veterinary Major in 1906 and Veterinary Lieutenant-Colonel in 1911. Peacocke went to Australia in 1914 as President of the Imperial Remount Commission and served in India, 1915-22, being promoted to Colonel in 1916. Colonel Peacocke retired on 28 March 1922 and went on to live at Lumville House, The Curragh, Ireland.

For his services Peacocke was awarded the C.I.E. (London Gazette 3 July 1916) and then the C.V.O. (London Gazette 23 June 1922) as Director General of the Remounts Department in India, on the occasion of the Prince of Wales visit to India. With copied research.