India General Service Medal 1854 With clasp for Persia. Awarded to Assistant Surgeon, John Robert Miller, 23rd Regiment Bombay N.I. Biography: Born 1820, died 7 December 1885. Deputy Surgeon of the General Bombay Establishment, M.D. (Edin) 1840, L.R.C.S. (Edin) 1841, Assistant Surgeon 2 December 1841, Guzerat Irregular Horse 1844, Poona Irregular Horse 11 January 1847, 23 Bombay Native Infantry late 1855 (?), Surgeon 23 Bombay Native Infantry 16 January 1857, Deputy Medical Storekeeper Mhow 1860, Surgeon Major 1862, Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals - Poana and South Division 4 September 1871, Sind. Div. 14 September 1871, and Deputy Surgeon General 1874. Retired 24 May 1877. Service: Persia.
PROVENANCE: Collection Late Kenneth F. Russell (1911-1987), Professor of Anatomy and Medical History, University of Melbourne.