Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (A. Ingram, Surgeon) good very fine £150-200

Alexander Ingram had an extremely unusual and varied medical career, predominantly in Africa. Born in 1868, he was educated at Fettes College and Edinburgh University. Having served as a Civil Surgeon to the South African Field Force 1901-2, he was the Medical Officer of the Caylloma Silver Mines in Peru from 1903 to 1905. Then followed a series of appointments in Africa: Medical Officer to Akrokerri Gold Mines, Ashanti, 1906-8 and to the Baro-Kano Railway, Nigeria, 1909-11. He served on the West Africa Medical Staff 1911-22, ending up as the Senior Pathologist Gold Coast Colony 1920-22. His last appointment was as the Director of the Medical Research Institute Accra 1923-4.