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Auction: 23113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 336

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel T. C. Lauder, Royal Army Medical Corps

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (Lieut. T. C. Lauder. R.A.M.C.); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt. T. C. Lauder. M.B. R.A.M.C.); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col. T. C. Lauder. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. T. C. Lauder.), a little staining to VM, otherwise good very fine, housed in a fitted glazed leather case (5)

Thomas Campion Lauder was born in Dublin on 8 June 1873, one of ten children of Edmund Stanley Lauder, a pioneering and successful photographer who had opened a daguerreotype studio in Dublin in 1853. His brother was James Stack Lauder, who used the professional name of James Lafayette, under which name in 1880 he founded the famous studio of that name. In adopting the name 'Lafayette', James created a new image for the family business, seeking to prosper from the cachet of a French name: Paris was then the centre of the art world and of avant-garde photography in particular.

Lauder was educated at Dublin & Edinburgh Universities and qualified L.R.C.P. & S.I. in 1894 and M.B.. B.Ch. in 1897. He was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps on 28 January 1899 and served throughout the Boer War in South Africa. Whilst there he was with 12 Bearer Company and also attached to the 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Returned home, he continued to qualify and was called upon again at the outbreak of the Great War. Advanced Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 March 1915, he served in the Balkans in this rank from July 1915. His Medals were issued to him at the British Station Hospital, Allalabad and retired on 24 June 1922. Lauder died at Bournemouth on 7 June 1943.

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