A K.C.B. group of five to Sir Thomas Galbraith Logan, M.D., Director-General of the Army Medical Department, 1867-74

The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, K.C.B. (Military) Knight Commander’s set of insignia, neck badge, 18ct. gold and enamel, hallmarks for London 1869; breast star, silver, gold appliqué and enamel; Sutlej 1845-46, for Aliwal 1846, 1 clasp, Sobraon (Surgeon, 53rd Regt.); Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; Turkey, Order of Medjidie, 5th Class, silver, gold and enamel, slight enamel damage to crescent suspension; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, pierced with ring suspension, the medals fitted with silver buckles, the group mounted in an octagonal wooden glass-fronted case, slight contact marks, very fine and better (6) £3000-3500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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Thomas Galbraith Logan was born in 1808 and educated at York and Ayr Academy. He qualified as a M.D. at Glasgow in 1827 and became a Hospital Assistant in 1828. He joined the Army Medical Department as an Assistant Surgeon on 29 July 1820, serving variously with the Staff and 53rd Foot, being appointed Surgeon to the 53rd Foot on 30 August 1842. With them he served in the First Sikh War. Serving with the 4th Foot in 1847, he was again with the Staff in 1852. He served as Principal Medical Officer Highland Division in the Crimea War and was awarded the Order of Medjidie for his services. Appointed Deputy Inspector-General in 1855 and Inspector-General in 1859, he was made Honorary Physician to the Queen in 1859. Awarded the C.B. in 1865, he was appointed F.R.C.P. and Director-General of the Army Medical Department in 1867, the latter against some opposition from, amongst others, Florence Nightingale, who wrote of him, that, ‘with 38 years experience, Logan has 14 more than Muir (her preferred candidate) but had no qualifications except that he is an honest and honourable man’. Logan continued as Director-General of the Army Medical Department until 1874, being Knighted, receiving the K.C.B. in 1869. Sold with original warrant for the Order of the Bath, K.C.B. , dated 2 June 1869 and with a letter from the Heralds College, dated 31 July 1869. Also with copied research and a photograph of his portrait.