The Collection of Medals awarded to the Medical services formed by the late Tony Sabell - Part I 352 353 354 ASHANTEE 1873-74, no clasp (2006 Pte. T. Leitch, 42nd Highds. 1873-4) slight contact marks, very fine fine £160-200
With copied roll extracts. ASHANTEE 1873-74, no clasp (T. W. Stephens, Sk. Bth. Attendt., H.M.S. Dromedary, 73-74) slight contact marks, very
£180-220 ASHANTEE 1873-74, no clasp (S. Browne, M.D. Surgn., R.N., H.M.S. Active, 73-74) good very fine £200-250
Samuel Brown was born in Belfast, the son of Dr Samuel Browne, Fleet Surgeon and afterwards Mayor of Belfast. He was educated at Belfast and Edinburgh and graduated as M.D. and
M.Ch. at Queen’s University, Ireland in 1872. He served in the Royal Navy, 1872 -82, during which time he served in the Ashantee War of 1873-74, being mentioned in despatches. In 1883 he took the D.P.H. of the Edinburgh College of Physicians. In 1884 he was appointed Medical Officer of Warwick Gaol. Browne retired from the Prison Service in 1901. During 1890-1910 he was Medical Officer for Health for Leamington and held a commission as Medical Officer in the 8th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Dr Browne died at Thames Ditton on 7 March 1925. With copied research.
Brigade Surgeon John Henry Hughes served with the 2nd Field Hospital during the Ashantee War 1873-74. With copied research. 355 ASHANTEE 1873-74, 1 clasp, Coomassie (Surgeon J. H. Hughes, 1873-74) minor edge bruise, good very fine £350-400
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A rare South Africa Medal 1877-79 awarded to Nurse Mary Ann Shiplen (Sister Elizabeth), Stafford House South African Aid Society
SOUTH AFRICA 1877-79, no clasp (Miss M. A. Shiplen. “Nurse”.) extremely fine
£800-1000
Nurses of the Stafford House South African Aid Society agreed to serve in South Africa for 6 months or for as long as hostilities continued. They arrived at Cape Town on 6 July 1879 and at Durban on 12 July. Sisters ‘Ruth’ and ‘Elizabeth’ were posted to the Auxiliary Hospital at Addington Point. Miss Shiplen was awarded the South Africa Medal without clasp; one of seven awarded to members of the Stafford House South African Aid Committee. Mary Shiplen was with the Egypt and Nile Expedition as a Cooking Sister, 10 June-18 August 1885 - sent out by the Princess Mary’s Branch of the National Aid Society. The Stafford House Society was one of many set up within the ‘National Aid Society’ - which with re-organisation in 1905 became the British Red Cross Society. With copied research.
357 SOUTH AFRICA 1877-79, no clasp (Surgeon J. F. Dowman, A.M. Dept.) good very fine £320-360
John Frederick Dowman was born at Cork on 15 May 1849. Appointed a Surgeon in the Army Medical Department on 4 August 1878 and resigned his commission on 17 June 1883.
358 SOUTH AFRICA 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Civil Surgn. E. H. Hare) nearly extremely fine £350-400
Evan Herring Hare was born in Putney in 1851. He was educated at Guildford and Westminster, followed by St. John’s College, Oxford and St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School where he qualified as a M.R.C.S. in 1876. Hare was one of the doctors sent out by the National Aid Society to provide medical aid to the combatants in the war between Serbia and Turkey 1876. For his services he was awarded the Serbian Order of Takova. In 1878 Hare became a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries. A year later Hare enrolled as a Civil Surgeon attached to the British force in the Zulu Campaign. In Natal he contracted a fever. After his return to England he opened a medical practice at Kew. In 1887 Hare became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeon. Hare continued in practice at Kew until 1920. He died at 159 Tottenham Lane, North London on 25 April 1932. With copied research.
359 SOUTH AFRICA 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (2223 Pte. G. Powell, A.H.C.) minor edge bruising, good very fine £300-350
George Powell was born in the Parish of Walcott, near Bath. A Baker by occupation, he enlisted into the Army Hospital Corps on 14 August 1873, aged 20 years. He served overseas on the Isle of St. Helena, July 1876-February 1879; Cape Province, February 1879- December 1880; and once more in St. Helena, December 1880-December 1885. Powell re-engaged as a member of the Medical Staff Corps in May 1885 and was discharged on 15 August 1894. With copied service papers and other research.
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AFGHANISTAN 1878-80, 1 clasp, Ali Musjid (1814 Pte. C. Adams, 1/17th Regt.) signs of brooch mounting to obverse, claw refitted, about very fine
£100-140 AFGHANISTAN 1878-80, 1 clasp, Ahmed Khel (2d Class Hospl. Asst. Wahabul Shair, 19th Bengal Lancers) very fine KABUL TO KANDAHAR STAR 1880 (Apothecary J. Prentie, Bengal Sub. Med. Dept.) nearly extremely fine
£120-160 £260-300
Joseph Prentie was born on 1 April 1856 and was given warrant rank on 28 May 1874. He became an Assistant Apothecary 2nd Class on 24 August 1877 when he was attached to the 9th Lancers. Prentie served in the Afghanistan War 1878-80, serving in the 1st Bazar Valley Expedition, the action at Fatehabad, 2 April 1879; the operations around Kabul; the march from Kabul to Kandahar and the battle of Kandahar, 1 September 1880. He was advanced to Apothecary 2nd Grade in May 1883 and Apothecary 1st Grade in May 1888. In 1890 he was the Civil Surgeon and Superintendent of the gaol at Bhadara, a position he was still holding in 1906. Prentie became an Assistant Surgeon 1st Class in April 1896 and Senior Assistant Surgeon with the honorary rank of Captain in February 1901. He retired on 1 April 1911. With copied research.
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