Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Surgn. Major R. W. O’Donnell, Medl. Staff) suspension loose at claw, otherwise good very fine £240-280

Provenance: Buckland Dix and Wood, December 1992.

Richard William O’Donnell wasborn at Carrick-on-Suir, co. Tipperary, on 17 April 1850, and was appointed Assistant- Surgeon, Army Medical Department, on 30 March 1872, being promoted Surgeon on 1 March 1873 and Surgeon-Major on 30 March 1884. He served in the Nile Expedition of 1884-85, in charge of hospitals at Assouan and with the River Column (entitled to an Egypt and Sudan Medal with clasp Nile 1884-85 and Khedive’s Star); and in the Burma campaign of 1885-87. He died on 1 July 1889