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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 8

x A Great War ´1917 Mesopotamia´ M.C. Group of Eight to Colonel C.H.N. Baker, Indian Medical Service a) Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse engraved in small sans-serif capitals ´Captain C.H.N. Baker. I.M.S.´ b) 1914 Star (Lt. C.H.N. Baker, I.M.S.) c) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Capt. C.H.N. Baker) d) India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Maj. C.H.N. Baker, I.M.S.) e) India General Service 1936-39, one clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (Lt.-Col. C.H.N. Baker, I.M.S.) e) Jubilee 1935, engraved in serif capitals ´Lt. Col. C.H.N. Baker´ f) Coronation 1937, generally very fine or better, mounted as originally worn (8) Estimate £ 1,000-1,400 M.C. London Gazette 3.6.1917 Captain Charles Henry Neil Baker, Indian Medical Services, ´´for distinguished service in the field in Mesopotamia.´´ Colonel Charles Henry Neil Baker, M.C. (1887-1956); L.R.C.P.S. Ed. and L.F.P.S.G. St. Bart´´s, 1913; commissioned Lieutenant Indian Medical Service, 31.1.1914; served during the Great War on the Western Front, 16.10.1914-4.2.1915; attached as Medical Officer 59th Scinde Rifles (7th Division), from 15.6.1915; served with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, 5.1.1916-26.4.1918 (M.I.D. London Gazette 15.8.1917), and with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 13.5.1918-31.10.1918; served at the Indian Surgical Hospital, Agra, 1922-23 and at the Indian Surgical Hospital, Lucknow, 1923-24; served as Commanding Officer Indian Surgical Hospital and Medical Services Depot, Rangoon, 1924-27; advanced Colonel 1936; retired 1944; he died at his residence, "Fugelmere", Culver Way, Sandown, Isle of Wight.

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