Orders, Decorations and Medals

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (Asst. Surgeon Reginald Croft Lever, 7th Hussars) nearly extremely fine £350-400

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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Reginald Croft Lever was born in London on 13 September 1837 and gaining the M.B., was appointed a Staff Assistant Surgeon on 1 October 1860. Placed on Half Pay, July 1861-January 1862, he was appointed to the 7th Hussars on 2 December 1862 and served with his unit in the expedition on the North West Frontier against the Mohmands and Bajouris led by Brevet-Colonel A. F. Macdonell in December 1863-January 1864. Attaining the rank of Surgeon-Major on 16 September 1875, he was placed on Half Pay on 30 May 1877. For many years he was in medical charge at Oxford.