Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War C.B. group of twelve awarded to Major-General H. Carr, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge conversion from a breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, in Garrard, London case of issue; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knight of Grace set of insignia, neck badge, 57mm. and breast star, 56mm., silver and enamel, in case of issue; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Surgn., Medl. Staff); Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Maj., R.A.M.C.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Major, R.A.M.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Major, M.D., R.A.M.C.); 1914 Star (Lt. Col., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Maj. Gen.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum, unnamed; Portugal, Republic, Order of Aviz, Grand Officer’s set of insignia, neck badge and breast star, silver-gilt and enamel, of later manufacture, good very fine (14) £1800-2200

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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Howard Carr was born on 8 March 1863 and educated at Queen’s College, Cork and the Royal University of Ireland. After gaining the M.D. from the R.U.I. Carr entered the R.A.M.C., being appointed Surgeon, afterwards Surgeon-Captain, on 1 August 1885. He served in the Burma Expedition, 1885-87 and the 2nd Miranzai Expedition, 1891. Promoted to Major in August 1897, he then served in the Dongola Expedition 1896 and the Nile Expedition 1898, being present at Atbara and Khartoum and was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 24 May 1898). He then served in the Boer War during 1900-02 and was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in August 1905. Serving in the Great War, he was promoted to Colonel in 1915 and Major-General in December 1917. For his wartime services and latterly as Deputy Director of Medical Services, he was five times mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 22 June 1915, 5 June 1916, 29 May 1917, 30 December 1918 and 10 July 1919) and awarded the C.B, in 1915, and the Order of Aviz from the Portuguese government. Placed on Retired Pay in 1919, Major-General Carr died on 23 May 1944. Sold with original Admittance Card for the Durbar Amphitheatre, Delhi, 12 December 1911, named to ‘Lt. Colonel Carr’; original Royal Victoria Hospital Magazine which contains a photograph and a short biography of the recipient; also with copied research.