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Auction: 15003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 34

South Africa 1834-53 (S.M. Hadaway. Surgn. 91st. Regt. & Stff. Surgn.), minor edge bruising, good very fine

Inspector General Samuel Maitland Hadaway (1805-1881); educated at the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh; Commissioned Assistant Surgeon, July 1836; stationed in Corfu, 1836-42, and 'awarded the Ionian Gold Medal given by that Government for having instituted some and remodelled others of their public hospitals and institutions'; promoted Surgeon, and attached 91st Foot, February 1843; served with the Regiment in South Africa, May 1843 to April 1847, during the Second Kaffir War, and recommended in Captain Campbell's Despatch: 'Dr. Hadaway, who was in front with the advanced guard, afforded great assistance by encouraging the men, and doing everything in his power to get the leading waggons on. He had a horse killed by two assegai wounds, and his servant had another killed close to him'; promoted Deputy Inspector General, January 1856; Inspector General of Hospitals, August 1863; retired, October 1870; died London, November 1881.

Provenance: Taylor Collection, Christie, November 1990

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