WW1 Mesopotamia Military Cross, 1914 Mons Star Trio (MID), 1908 IGS (Clasp – North West Frontier 1930-31), 1936 IGS (Clasp – North West Frontier 1936-37), 1935 Jubilee and 1937 Coronation Medal Group of Eight with a Quantity of Original Documents – Colonel C.H.N. Baker, Indian Medical Service
£2,195.00
Regiment: Indian Medical Service
Era: WW1
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A fantastic and well documented Great War 1917 Mesopotamia MC group of eight to Colonel Charles Henry Neil Baker, Indian Medical Service, with a folder full of original documentation and a superb matching contemporary set of miniatures.
1914 Mons Star named to Lt. C.H.N. Baker. I.M.S.
British War Medal named to Capt. C.H.N. Baker.
WW1 Victory Medal (with MID emblem) named to Capt. C.H.N. Baker.
1908 India General Service Medal (Clasp – North West Frontier 1930-31) named to Maj. C.H.N. Baker, I.M.S.
1936 India General Service Medal (Clasp – North West Frontier 1936-37) named to Lt.- Col. C.H.N. Baker. I.M.S.
1935 George V Silver Jubilee Medal engraved Lt. Col. C.H.N. Baker
1937 George VI Coronation Medal unnamed as issued
London Gazette:
MC – 3rd June 1917 ´for distinguished service in the field in
Mesopotamia.´
MID – 15th August 1917
Colonel Charles Henry Neil Baker, M.C. (1887-1956);
L.R.C.P.S. Ed. and L.F.P.S.G. St. Bart´´s, 1913; commissioned Lieutenant Indian
Medical Service, 31.1.1914; served during the Great War on the Western Front,
16.10.1914-4.2.1915; attached as Medical Officer 59th Scinde Rifles (7th
Division), from 15.6.1915; served with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force,
5.1.1916-26.4.1918 (M.I.D. London Gazette 15.8.1917), and with the Egyptian
Expeditionary Force, 13.5.1918-31.10.1918; served at the Indian Surgical
Hospital, Agra, 1922-23 and at the Indian Surgical Hospital, Lucknow, 1923-24;
served as Commanding Officer Indian Surgical Hospital and Medical Services
Depot, Rangoon, 1924-27; advanced Colonel 1936; retired 1944; he died at his
residence, “Fugelmere”, Culver Way, Sandown, Isle of Wight.
A superb lot.
Regiment: Indian Medical Service
Era: WW1
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