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Auction: 24113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 377

Pair: Surgeon Richard Phillipson, 16th Native Infantry

Ghuznee 1839 (R. Phillipson Surgeon 16th Regt. N.I.) naming engraved on edge, fitted with replacement scroll suspension and floreate ribbon buckle; Candahar Ghuznee Cabul 1842 (R. Phillipson Surgeon. 16th Regt. N.I.), naming engraved in upright capitals, fitted with replacement scroll suspension and floreate ribbon buckle, very fine (2)

Richard Phillipson was born at Chichester, Sussex in September 1804 and was made M.R.C.S. in 1826. He served as Surgeon’s Mate aboard the Minerva during 1829-30. Appointed Assistant Surgeon on 7 May 1831; Surgeon on 15 January 1848; he retired on 10 April 1855, and returned to his native Edinburgh. He is recorded as seeing service in ‘Afghanistan 1839-42. Capture of Ghuznee: (Prize Rolls): Medal’. Having returned home, he settled in Axbridge, Somerset, with his wife Mary - who was some two decades his junior - and had issue of three daughters and a son. Phillipson died in 1892.

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£1,300

Starting price
£700