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Auction: 23002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 44

Four: Captain H. F. L. Duckworth, Indian Medical Department

India General Service 1895-1908, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Asst Sargn [sic] H. Duckworth I.S.M.D.); China 1900, no clasp (3d Cl: Asstt Surgn: H.F.L. Duckworth. I.S.M.D.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. H.F.L. Duckworth. I.M.D.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (1st Cl. Asst. Surgn: H. Duckworth I.S.M.D.), about very fine (4)

Henry Fuller Lancelot Duckworth was born in Mercara, India, in July 1877, son of Henry and Grace Georgiana. Appointed Assistant Surgeon 3rd Class in the Indian Services Medical Department on 1 April 1897, in this capacity he served on the Punjab Frontier and Tirah Expedition (Medal & 2 clasps) and in China for the Boxer Rebellion (Medal without clasp). Returning to India at the conclusion of the campaign, in June 1901 he married Louise Emily Eate in Bangalore and this union produce three children. Subsequently commissioned, during the Great War he appears to have remained in India with his M.I.C. noting entitlement to the British War Medal only. Duckworth died, in India, at Bangalore's Victorian Hospital, on 13 February 1946.

Sold with two unmounted contemporary silver miniature dress medals (India General Service 1895-1908, clasp Punjab Frontier 1897-98; China 1900, clasp Relief of Pekin, respectively) and a small file of copied research.

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£600

Starting price
£240