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Auction: 20002 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Space Exploration
Lot: 92

(x) Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (Surgn. Maj: H. J. Lawrence, 3/Grenr. Gds.), good very fine

Henry John Hughes Lawrence was born on 21 June 1830 at Carmarthenshire, Wales, the son of Henry Lawrence and Frances Justina Maria Jane Vaughan Hughes. Appointed Assistant Surgeon to the 1st (or Grenadier) Regiment of Foot Guards on 24 February 1854, he served in the Crimean Campaign from November 1854, including the siege and fall of Sebastopol (Medal & Clasp, Turkish Medal). He went on to serve in the Sudan Campaign of 1885 with the Grenadier Guards (Hart's Army List 1906, refers). Promoted Surgeon on 30 October 1866 and Surgeon Major on 1 March 1873, Lawrence was later appointed Honorary Brigade Surgeon before finally retiring from the Medical Department on 21 June 1885.

Lawrence married Edith Georgina Hogarth at Marylebone on 16 July 1889, only daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Hogarth, C.B., 26th Cameronians (The Buckingham Advertiser and North Bucks Free Press, 20 July 1889, refers). He spent the final years of his life living at Lampeter Velfrey in Pembrokeshire, and died on 23 November 1916 at Quedgeley Lawn Hardwick in Gloucestershire. Probate held at London on 1 February 1917 recorded effects to the value of £1695 13s. 4d., being divided between James Edward Garnous Lawrence, Solicitor, and Henry John Griffiths Lawrence, Commander, Royal Navy.


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