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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 634

The mounted group of twelve miniature dress medals worn by Major-General H. Carr, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s Badge, gold and enamel; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Badge, silver and enamel; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; 1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; Delhi Durbar 1911; Portugal, Order of St. Aviz, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette upon riband; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum, mounted as worn, very fine, housed in Spink & Son, 17 & 18 Piccadilly case (12)

C.B. London Gazette 23 June 1915.

St. John Knight of Grace London Gazette 18 August 1916.

Portuguese Order of St. Aviz London Gazette 21 July 1919.

Howard Carr was born on 8 March 1863 and educated at Queen’s College, Cork and the Royal University of Ireland. After gaining his M.D. Carr entered the Royal Army Medical Corps, being appointed Surgeon, afterwards Surgeon-Captain, on 1 August 1885. He served in the Burma Expedition, 1885-87 and the Second Miranzai Expedition, 1891. Promoted to Major in August 1897, he then served in the Dongola Expedition 1896 and the Nile Expedition 1898, being present at Atbara and Khartoum and was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 24 May 1898, refers). He then served in the Boer War during 1900-02 and was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in August 1905. Serving in the Great War, he was promoted to Colonel in 1915 and Major-General in December 1917. For his wartime services and latterly as Deputy Director of Medical Services, he was five times mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 22 June 1915, 5 June 1916, 29 May 1917, 30 December 1918 and 10 July 1919) to go with the C.B. and St. Aviz. Placed on Retired Pay in 1919, Major-General Carr died on 23 May 1944.

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Sold for
£400

Starting price
£200