Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Franklin Pedley, Rangoon Volunteer Artillery

Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed; Volunteer Officers’ Decoration, V.R.I. cypher, reverse inscribed, ‘Surgn. Major T. F. Pedley, Rangoon Volr. Arty.’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1896, lacks top bar, correction to initials, good very fine (2)
£200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Thomas Franklin Pedley received his medical training at Guy’s Hospital and qualified as a M.R.C.S., Eng., in 1876, and in the same year became a L.S.A.; he gained his M.D. in Brussels, 1879. Going to Burma, he lived in Rangoon. There he was a member of the Burma Sanitary Board, Medical Officer at Dufferin Maternity Hospital, and Health Officer of the Rangoon Municipality, 1883-1900. Joining the Indian Volunteers, he became the Surgeon Major of the Rangoon Volunteer Artillery in 1880 and was promoted Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel in 1900. He was awarded the Volunteer Officers’ Decoration by the Gazette of India of 7 April 1899. During the Great War he was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind 1st Class (Gazette of India 3 June 1915). Dr Pedley died at Bridge House, Rangoon on 13 June 1922. Sold with copied research.