Medals from a Mutiny Collection

Pair: Surgeon Major-General T. Rudd, Army Medical Department, attached 8th Hussars, who was Mentioned in Despatches for his services at the Battle of Kooshana

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Ast. Surgn. T. Rudd, M.D. 8th. Hussars.); Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Sur. Maj: T. Rudd. M.D. A.M.D.) contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine (2) £800-£1,000

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Thomas Rudd was born in Colombo, Ceylon, on 6 June 1833 and was commissioned Assistant Surgeon in the Army Medical Department on 1 August 1857. Posted to the 8th Hussars on 18 September 1857, he served during the Great Sepoy Mutiny with the 8th Hussars during the Central India campaign and was present at the capture of Kotah and the battles of Kotaria and Kooshana. For his services at the latter engagement he was Mentioned in Despatches by Brigadier Horner, C.B.: ‘The Medical Department, conducted by Assistant-Surgeon Rudd, Her Majesty’s 8th Hussars, was as usual in the British Army, all that could be wished’ (Calcutta Gazette 16 March 1859).

Posted to the 2nd Dragoons in December 1859, and promoted Surgeon Major, attached 7th Foot, on 18 November 1871, Rudd served with the Khyber Line Force during the Second Afghan War, and was advanced Brigade Surgeon on 13 March 1883. Returning to the U.K., he was appointed the first Medical Officer in charge of the Garrison at Woolwich the following year; was promoted Surgeon Colonel on 11 April 1888, and was appointed Principal Medical Officer of the Army of Occupation in Egypt that same year. He was advanced to his ultimate rank of Surgeon Major General on 6 February 1893, and retired on 6 June of that year, after 24 years’ full pay service. He died in San Remo, Italy, on 24 February 1895.

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