Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Honorary Surgeon General V. Webb, Army Medical Department, late Surgeon, 46th Regiment of Foot

Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Mooltan, Goojerat (Asst. Surgn. Vere Webb. 10th. Foot.); Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, this loose on riband, unnamed as issued; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, a contemporary tailor’s copy by ‘J.B.’, unnamed as issued, 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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Vere Webb was born in Barnstaple, Devon, on 18 September 1817. He qualified as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1843, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the 67th Regiment of Foot on 13 October 1843. Transferred to the Staff on 4 June 1847 and 10th Regiment of Foot the following month, he served in India from July 1847 to June 1853, including the Punjab campaign of 1848-49.

Raised Staff Surgeon Second Class on 28 March 1854 and Surgeon to the 46th Regiment of Foot on 5 May 1854, Webb left his first wife behind in Margate and sailed for the Crimea on 8 November 1854 aboard the steam transport Prince. He served throughout the war in the Crimea and remained with the Regiment when it was posted to Corfu following the evacuation of the peninsula. Reappointed to the Staff on 29 November 1859, he married Fanny Elizabeth Duncan at Colchester and departed for Canada in June 1861. Taking residence in Toronto, the couple became parents to two sons in quick succession before Webb was promoted Surgeon Major on 13 October 1863, and later Surgeon to the 70th Regiment of Foot. Returned to the Staff, he was further raised Deputy Inspector General and Deputy Surgeon General in the Army Medical Department in 1871 and retired at Belfast on half-pay with the Honorary rank of Surgeon General on 18 September 1877.

Sold with extensive copied research which notes that the Punjab Medal was retailed as a single in 2006, with subsequent additions to complete entitlement.