THE SUDAN CAMPAIGN 1896-1908 3
Five: Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel Eugene Cretin, Indian Medical Staff, who served at the Suakin Field Hospital
AFGHANISTAN 1878-80, no clasp (Surgn. E. Cretin, 31st Ben: N:I:); INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-94, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (Surgn. Eugene Cretin, 1st Bl. Infy.); QUEEN‘S SUDAN 1896-98 (Sur. Maj. E. Cretin, 1/Beng’l Inf.); INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Surgn. Major E. Cretin, I.M.S.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896 -1908, no clasp (Surgn. Major E. Cretin, I.M.S.) contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better (5)
£800-1000
Eugene Cretin was born on the island of Mauritius on 6 January 1851. He was sent to England for education and training to be a doctor, L.S.A., London 1874. He gained his M.B. at the University of London (Barts) in 1875, qualifying as a surgeon, L.R.C.P. the following year, and F.R.C.S. in 1876. After working at the Borough Hospital, Birkenhead, 1875-77, he applied to the Government of India for a commission, and was accepted early in 1878, being commissioned Surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service on 30 March of that year.
In 1880 he was the officiating civil surgeon at Jhelum, India. He took part in the Afghan war of 1880, attached to the 31st Bengal Native Infantry, being present in the engagement at Kam Dakka, during the Lughman Valley expedition. He was also present at the engagement on the Gara Heights in the Hissarik District. He served on two expeditions to Burma during 1885-89 while attached to the 1st Bengal Infantry in the 2nd and 5th Brigades. He was promoted Surgeon Major on 30 March 1890. In 1896 he went to the Sudan to serve with the Suakin Garrison element of the Dongola Expeditionary Force, which was based at the seaport to prevent the Khalifa’s Dervishes access to the Red Sea, and hence Arabia or Abyssinia. On returning to India he served for some time with the expeditionary Force at Tochi on the Punjab Frontier. He became Surgeon Lt. Colonel on 30 March 1898, and was medical officer to the 1st Brahmins when he retired in December 1905. He then returned to England, where he died on 10 September 1908, at Felstead, near Chelmsford, Essex, where there is a memorial to him in the churchyard.
Eugene Cretin was also a holder of the Herbert prize medal for the Army Surgeon’s Course at Netley and the Martin Gold Medal for Tropical Medicine. He was the author of “The Anglers Handbook For India”, The North Punjab Fishing Club, which covers all issues relating to fishing in India, most notably Mahseer fishing. With some copied research.
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Pair: Colonel Benjamin William Marlow, C.S.I., C.I.E., Gloucester Regiment and Madras Staff Corps, who served on the staff of Brigadier Egerton at Suakin, later becoming Military Accountant General of the Indian Army
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-94, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Lieut. B. W. Marlow 12th Madras Infy.); KHEDIVE’S SUDAN 1896 -1908, no clasp (Capt. B. W. Marlow. Staff, Suakin Field Force) good very fine (2)
£500-600
Benjamin William Marlow was born on 1 December 1863, the son of Inspector General B. W. Marlow, C.B., M.D., of Alverstoke, Hampshire. He was educated at Clifton College and R.M.C., Sandhurst, and was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the South Tipperary Militia (Clonmel) in February 1882. Commissioned into the Gloucester Regiment in November 1884, he was seconded for service with the Indian Staff Corps and attached to the 12th Madras Infantry for the Burma 1886 campaign. He transferred to the Military Accounts Department in August 1891, and was appointed Assistant Military Accountant 1st class in September 1894. He was promoted Captain, I.S.C. in November 1895, and served as Field Paymaster to the Suakin Field Force in 1896, being awarded the Khedive’s Sudan medal and not entitled to the Queen’s medal.
He was Officiating Military Accountant at Rawalpindi in 1897, becoming Major in November 1902, and appointed Military Accountant 1st class, Calcutta, in December the same year. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in December 1904, and to Colonel in December 1908, serving with the Military Finance Branch, Finance Department, Government of India. He was appointed Military Accountant General in April 1908. He was present at the 1911 Delhi Durbar, received the medal and was created C.I.E. in the Durbar honours list. During the Great War he was based at Army H.Q. Simla, being created C.S.I. in 1917, and mentioned in despatches, London Gazette 26 November 1918, for ‘services of particular value’. He was not entitled to any campaign medals for his Great War service. Marlow retired in April 1920 and died on 20 April 1943, at Alverstoke, Hampshire.
With a folder containing copied research.
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