Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel R. P. Hetherington, Royal Army Medical Corps

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, The Nile 1884-85 (Surgeon, A.M. Dept.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1889-92 (Surgn. Capt., M.B., Army Medl. Staff), official correction to unit; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Lt. Col., R.A.M.C.); King’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps (Lt. Col., M.D., R.A.M.C.); Khedive’s Star 1884-6, unnamed, minor edge bruising and contact marks, very fine and better (5) £600-700

Ex Colonel david Riddick Collection, D.N.W. 6 December 2006.

Reynolds Peyton Hetherington was born on 1 September 1854. He qualified as a B.A. at Dublin in 1876, M.B. in 1878 and M.D. in 1897. He entered the Army as a Surgeon, afterwards Surgeon-Captain in February 1881, was promoted to Surgeon-Major in the R.A.M.C. in February 1893 and attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in February 1901. He was placed on Half Pay in April 1907.