Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Surgeon-Major R. C. Anderson, 90th Regiment of Foot, later 13th Light Dragoons and Deputy Inspector of Hospitals

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Surgeon, H. C. Anderson. 90th. Foot.) Hunt & Roskell engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (J [sic]. C. Anderson Surgeon 13th Light Dragoons.) contemporary impressed naming, plugged and fitted with a small swivel ring suspension, with a contemporary silver two-prong top riband buckle; together with a matching set of miniature dress medals, housed in a fitted display case, nearly extremely fine (2) £500-£700

Robert Carew Anderson was born in 1815 and was commissioned Assistant-Surgeon on 22 May 1840, Posted to the 90th (Perthshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot, he was promoted Surgeon on 18 May 1849 and served with them in the Crimea. Transferring to the 13th Light Dragoons in 1857, he was promoted Surgeon-Major on 22 May 1860, and later served as Deputy Inspector of Hospitals. He died in 1885.