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Auction: 24002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 101

The campaign pair awarded to Fleet Surgeon A. H. Jeremy, Royal Navy, the Surgeon for H.M.S. Terrible during the critical first weeks of the Anglo-Boer War; he was later Medical Officer at the Taku Hospital and joined the response to the Red Sea troubles between 1905-06

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (Surg: A. H. Jeremy, B.A, M.B, H:M:S: Terrible); China 1900, no clasp (Surgn. A. H. Jeremy, R.N. H.M.S. Phoenix.), light contact marks, very fine (2)

Alfred Hutton Jeremy was born at Rathefarnham, Dublin, on 13 December 1866, the son of Daniel and Ann Jeremy. Educated at Peterhouse School, Southport he graduated to the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin where he later became a Bachelor of Obstetrics in 1890, later Trinity College Dublin. Finally, he passed as a Staff Surgeon on 14 July 1904 and joined Haslar as a Surgeon.

Posted afloat for the first time with the battleship Ramillies in 1905, he was with her the next year when she collided with her sister ship Resolution. He was posted as Surgeon to the cruiser Terrible on 19 September 1899, being stationed with her in Simonstown he joined the Naval Brigade from that vessel in November 1899.

Joining Phoenix on 12 March 1900 he saw service in the Boxer Rebellion and noted in his service records as serving at the Taku Hospital from June to August 1900. Advanced Staff-Surgeon with Satellite, he joined Fox in 1905 and was serving with her during the troubles at Bahrein as well as the Hodeida and Henjam incidents between 1905-06.

He continued to serve in a number of roles, being appointed Fleet Surgeon whilst ashore in 1909. Posted to the Battleship Implacable in 1912 he served there for some time but fell ill with pneumonia. Jeremy died at 4 Dorset Square, Marylebone on 15 February 1914; sold together with copied research.

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Sold for
£700

Starting price
£320