Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Brigade Surgeon J. Hannan, 49th Regiment

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Asst. Surgeon, 49th Foot), engraved naming; Turkey, Order of Medjidie, 5th Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamel, minor enamel damage; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, pierced and fitted with a ‘British Crimea’ style suspension, slight edge bruising and contact marks, very fine (3) £450-500

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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James Hannan was born in Dublin on 29 September 1828, was appointed an Assistant Surgeon with the 49th Foot on 7 April 1854, and served with them in the Crimean War, for which service he was awarded the Order of Medjidie 5th Class. Promoted to Staff Surgeon and Surgeon-Major on 4 November 1864, he later served with the Royal Artillery and again with the 49th Regiment. On 27 November 1879 he attained the Brigade Surgeon. He died at Simla on 12 June 1880.