Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Deputy Surgeon-General E. H. Roberts, Army Medical Department, who served with the 72nd Highlanders in the Crimea and with the 79th Highlanders in the Indian Mutiny

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Asst. Surgn. E H Roberts, 79th Highlanders); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, pierced and fitted with rings for suspension, mounted on card for display, light contact marks, otherwise very fine (3) £600-£800

Edmund Humphrey Roberts was born at Holyhead on 3 May 1832, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon, 72nd Foot, on 23 June 1854; 79th Foot, 14 July 1857; Staff, 14 June 1859; Surgeon, Staff, 7 August 1866; Royal Artillery, 2 October 1866; Staff, 5 May 1869; 9th Foot, 21 August 1872; Brigade Surgeon, 13 November 1881; Deputy Surgeon-General, 4 May 1886; retired, 14 March 1889, having latterly held the position of Principal Medical Officer of the Chatham District. Served as Assistant Surgeon with 72nd Highlanders in the Crimea 1855-56 (Medal with Clasp, Turkish medal); Assistant Surgeon with 79th Highlanders in the Indian Mutiny 1858, including siege and capture of Lucknow, attack on the fort of Rooyah, action at Allygunge and capture of Bareilly (Medal with Clasp). He died at Brighton on 24 November 1894.