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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 149

(x) Pair: Civil Surgeon H. M. Tickell, attached Royal Army Medical Corps

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Laing's Nek, Belfast (H. M. Tickell. Surgeon.); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Civ. Surg. H. M. Tickell.), very fine

Henry Maurice Tickell was born on 14 August 1866, the son of Louisa & Commander T. Tickell R.N.. Young Tickell was educated at 'Cherbourg', Worcester (private) and Matriculated in the Michaelmas term in 1885; B.A. 1888; M.B., B.Chir. and M.A. in 1894; M.D. 1898; D.P.H. 1904.

He first worked at St. Bartholomew's Hospital M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. 1893 and was Junior House Surgeon, then went to Cheltenham General Hospital as House Physician. Latterly at the Brompton Hospital & Royal Infirmary, Derby, he then practiced at Marple, Stockport before the outbreak of the Boer War. Serving in South Africa as a Civil Surgeon, on his return he went back to Cheltenham and was noted in the 1911 Census as a Medical Practitioner (retired). By the 1921 Census he is noted as a House Physician at Cheltenham General Hospital. Tickell died at St. Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth Hampshire on 7 March 1943.

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Estimate
£200 to £300

Starting price
£160