INDIA GENERAL SERVICE (1854) AFGHANISTAN PAIR TO SURGEON MAJOR DONALD ELCUM-MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES FOR BURMA 1887

India General Service Medal (1854) clasps: BURMA 1885-7 /BURMA 1887-89 (this bar stitched on).Named to: SURGEON D.ELCUM I.M.D.
Afghanistan Medal 1878-79-80,no clasp, named to:
SURGEON :DNLD ELCUM I.M.D.
Medals are about extremely fine and toned, small nick on I.G.S.On original stitched ribbons.(Medal and clasps confirmed on roll)
Taken from India Medical Service:
Elcum Donald.
Born 28th May,Guy's L.S.A.1875.m.r.c.s.1876.Surgeon 31st March 1877.S.M.31 March 1889.Retired 1895.Lt Colonel 18th October 1903,promoted for services in connection with the South African War for service outside South Africa.Rejoined for service in War of 1914-1918.Died in London 11 August 1922.Afghanistan 1879-80 Medal.Burma 1886-87 ,Desp. G.C.O. No 434 of 1887.Medal.War of 1914-19 Desp. L.G.22 Jan 1919 and 5 June 1919.
The Medical directories have additional information: Donald Elcum, of 41, Montpelior Terrace,Cheltenham,and Luxor,Upper Egypt.
Late Superintendant Lunatic Asylum Madras.Inspector of Disps H.H. The Nazim's dominions,and Super.Medical Off.Native Hosp.Luxor.
Zillah Surgeon and Superintendent of Jails Berhampore
Appointed examiner of Surgical Instruments,India Store depot,April,1908.
The 1911 census lists him as:Lieutenant Colonel,H.M.'s Indian Medical Service (retired) and now Inspector of Surgical Instruments to H.M.'s Indian Government,at India Office, Whitehall.
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