Orders, Decorations and Medals

A C.M.G. group of seven awarded to Colonel E. V. Hugo, Indian Medical Service

The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, slight enamel damage; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1894-95 (Surgn. Lieut., I.M.S.); India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Malakand 1897, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Surgn. Captn., I.M.S., 31st Bl. Infy.), ‘31st’ re-engraved; 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col., I.M.S.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Col.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Lt. Col.), this officially renamed, medals mounted as worn, good very fine and better (7) £800-1000

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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Edward Victor Hugo was born on 5 January 1865 and educated at Foyles College, Londonderry, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and London University, gaining the M.R.C.S., 1889; L.R.C.P., Lond., 1889; M.B. (Honours); B.S., Lond., 1890; M.D. (Honours), 1892 and F.R.C.S. Eng. in 1906. Appointed a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service on 27 July 1892 and Surgeon-Captain on 27 July 1895, he served in the Waziristan Expedition of 1894-95, the Chitral Relief Force 1895, the defence and relief of Chakdara and services on the N.W. Frontier, 1897-98. For his services he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 11 January 1898). Promoted to Major on 27 July 1904 and Lieutenant-Colonel on 27 July 1912, he served in the Great War in Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, 1915-19 and was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 15 August 1917 and 12 January 1920) and created a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (1917). Postwar he served on the N.W. Frontier of India and retired from the service on 8 April 1922. Colonel Hugo died on 24 December 1951.