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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 155

Pair: Surgeon Major-General W.M. Webb, Army Medical Department
Crimea 1854-56, three clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (W.M. Webb. 19th. Regt.), contemporarily engraved in upright serif capitals; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian die, unnamed as issued, with contemporary riveted eye-let silver suspension, contact marks, nearly very fine, together with the recipient's related miniature Crimea Medal (2)

Surgeon Major-General William Marshall Webb (1833-1899), born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire; appointed Assistant Surgeon, Army Medical Department, attached 19th Foot, March 1854; advanced Surgeon-Major, January 1864; Assistant Professor of Medicine at Netley, 1873-1878; Brigade Surgeon, November 1879; Deputy Surgeon-General, July 1881; Surgeon-General, afterwards Surgeon Major-General, December 1887; retired July 1893; died in Cairo; in 1901 his widow founded the Marshall Webb prize in his memory - awarded to the Lieutenant on probation R.A.M.C. who obtained the highest marks in the examination on Military Medical Administration at the Royal Army Medical College.

W.M. Webb was the son of Captain J.W. Webb, and great nephew of Sir John Webb.

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