Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Surgeon Major C. L. Cox, Indian Medical Service

China 1842 (Asst. Surgeon, 2nd Reg. Bengal Vol.), with original straight bar suspension; Punjab 1848-49, no clasp (Asst. Surgn., 15th Irregular Cavy.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (Asst.-Surgn., 15th Irregr. Cavy.) good very fine and better (3) £1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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Charles Lindsay Cox was born in May 1813 and became a M.R.C.S. in 1838. Appointed an Assistant Surgeon in the Indian Army on 27 July 1841, he served in that capacity in the First China War, the Second Sikh War and on the North West Frontier of India. Appointed Surgeon on 22 September 1855, he was admitted as a F.R.C.S. in 1860 and promoted to Surgeon Major on 22 July 1867. He retired from the service on 1 December 1873 and died at Clifton on 23 May 1886.