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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 4

x A Fine ´Boxer Rebellion´ C.I.E., Military Order of the Dragon Group of Six to Lieutenant-Colonel W.J.R. Rainsford, Royal Army Medical Corps, Who Served as Principal Medical Officer, China Field Force a) The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, Companion´s (C.I.E.) neck Badge, gold and enamel, with neck riband b) Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Sgn. W.J.R. Rainsford. C/3.R.A.) c) Egypt 1882-89, dated, no clasp (Surgn. W.J.R. Rainsford A.M.D.) d) China 1900, one clasp, Relief of Pekin (Lieut. Col. W.J.R. Rainsford R.A.M. Corps), with official corrections e) Khedive´s Star 1882 f) United States of America, Military Order of the Dragon, China 1900 (Col. William J.R. Rainsford. R.A.M.C. No. 136), with original riband and top bronze ´pagoda´ suspension, light contact marks overall, therefore very fine, with United States of America Badge of the Association of Military Surgeons, gold and enamel, by Mermod & Jaccard, St. Louis, Missouri, reverse engraved ´No. 323´ Estimate £ 2,200-2,600 C.I.E. London Gazette 25.7.1901 Lieutenant Colonel W.J.R. Rainsford R.A.M.C. ´´For services in China.´´ [Originally Recommended for a C.M.G. by Major-General Gaselee] Colonel William John Read Rainsford, C.I.E. (1852-1932), son of W.R. Rainsford of Cradockstown House, County Kildare, Ireland; educated at Portarlington School and Queen´´s College, Cambridge; a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland; entered the Army as Surgeon, 1877; he served attached to the Royal Artillery with the Khyber Field Force during the Second Afghan War, 1878-80; after service in Egypt he was promoted Surgeon Major 1889; Brigade Surgeon 1898; served during the Third China War, especially during the Relief of the Garrison at Peking and ended the campaign as Principal Medical Officer for the China Field Force (C.I.E.; Mentioned in Major-General Gaselee´´s Despatches, London Gazette 14.5.1901; U.S.A. Military Order of the Dragon); Colonel 1903; whilst attending the Annual Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States in Detroit, Michigan, September 1905, he was elected as the first foreigner to be a Honorary Member of that Body; retired 26.1.1909; re-employed as Medical Officer in charge of Orchard Convalescent Hospital, Dartford, Kent, 1916-18; died at Oak Lodge, Exmouth, Devon.

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