Orders, Decorations and Medals

India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Malakand 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (Captn. E. A. R. Newman, M.B. I.M.S.) very fine and scarce £400-500

Ernest Alan Robert Newman was born on 12 May 1867, and educated at Haileybury; Caius College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew’s Hospital. B.A. Hons. 1887; M.B. B.S. 1891; Cantab. M.R.C.S. 1890; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1890. He joined the Indian Medical Service as a Surgeon Lieutenant in July 1893, becoming Surgeon Captain in July 1896. Attached to the 45th (Rattray’s) Sikhs, he served on the North West Frontier, Malakand, 1897-98, including defence of Malakand, relief of Chakdara, action at Landakai, operations in Bajaur and in Mamund country (Medal and two clasps). Also served in Tirah 1897-98, including the operations in Bara Valley (Clasp).

During the Great War he was Superintendent Medical School and Civil Surgeon, Dacca, Bengal, and was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire on 3 June 1918.

He was the author of Manual of Aseptic Surgery, 1906, and Irrigation Cataract Extraction, 1933. Afterwards a Consulting Opthalmic Surgeon for Rutland County Council, he died on 2 March 1943.