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Auction: 11010 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 64

Six: Colonel J.H.E. Austin, Royal Army Medical Corps Queen´s Sudan 1896-98 (Capt: J.H.E. Austin. R.A.M.C.); Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (Capt. J.H.E. Austin R.A.M.C.); King´s South Africa 1901-1902, two clasps (Major J.H.E. Austin R.A.M.C.), additionally engraved ´Attd. 2/Gren. Gds.´; British War Medal (Col. J.H.E. Austin); Coronation 1911, silver, unnamed as issued; Khedive´s Sudan 1896-1908, one clasp, Khartoum (Captn. J.H.E. Austin. R.A.M.C. 1898), clasps adapted to facilitate wear, toned, generally good very fine or better (6) Estimate £ 800-1,000 Colonel John Henry Austin (1863-1917), born Broughton, near Chester; qualifying as a M.R.C.S. & L.R.C.P. at Edinburgh, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as Surgeon-Captain, July 1891; having served in the Sudan, 1898, he went on to serve during the Second Boer War and was present in the operations in the Orange Free State and in the actions of Biddulphsberg and Wittebergen (M.I.D. and received special promotion to Major 29.11.1900); advanced Lieutenant-Colonel, May 1912 and Colonel, March 1915; died two years later in London and was buried in East Finchley Cemetery.

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