Medal Group Awarded to Assistant Surgeon George Hickie Daly, M.D. 1st Regiment Hodsons Horse; Fanes Horse; 21st Regiment N.I. Comprising Indian Mutiny Medal 1858. Second China War Medal 1861(clasps for Pekin 1860, Taku Forts 1860), Abyssinian War Medal 1868. Biography: M.D. Assistant Surgeon 4 November 1853 served with the 6 Batt. Artillery; appointed to 27th N.I. 30 October 1854; to medical charge of 19th Cavalry (formerly Fane's Horse), 13 February 1860; Surgeon 24 October 1864; to 21st N.I. (formerly 9th Punjab Infantry) 15 October 1866; Garrison Surgeon, Fort William 22 June 1869; to 18th Bengal Cavalry 6 May 1873; to 13th Bengal Cavalry (Lancers) 16 February 1874. Service: Indian Mutiny with 1st Regiment Hodson's Horse. China in 1860 with Fane's Horse; also Abyssinia with 21st Native Infantry.
PROVENANCE: Collection Late Kenneth F. Russell (1911-1987), Professor of Anatomy and Medical History, University of Melbourne.