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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 178

Pair: Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets F. A. Jeans, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (F. A. Jeans. Surgn. R.N. H.M.S. “Coquette”); Khedive’s Star 1882, the first with some light pitting, otherwise good very fine (2)

Francis Austen Jeans was born at Constantinople in 1855 and entered the Royal Navy at Netley Hospital at a Surgeon in September 1877. He was Surgeon of Coquette during the Egyptian War of 1882 (Medal without clasp, Khedive’s Bronze Star), and thence served during the naval and military operations in the Eastern Soudan, at Suakin, 1884-85 (Suakin clasp). He was appointed Staff Surgeon in March 1889, advanced Fleet Surgeon, May 1894 and Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets (Retired), 27 October 1908. Jeans died on 28 November 1939.

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Sold for
£380

Starting price
£220