East and West Africa Medal 1887-1900
Clasp for Sierra Leone 1898-99. Awarded to Captain John Gerald Berne R.A.M.C.
Awarded for services in the Sherboro District and along the Brempe River. The bar may be considered as rather rare to the Navy, but not to native troops. It was awarded to Navy personnel who had been under fire whereas every native participant in the above, as well as the Lokko and Kittam River expeditions received it.
Biography: Captain John Gerald Berne, R.A.M.C., was born in Secunderabad 31 December 1872 and died in 1922 (as recorded in the 1922 Medical Register, though not in 1923). L.R.C.P.I. L.R.C.S.I. (1894), D.P.H. (Cantab.) 1904, and L.M.R of the Dublin Hospital (1894). Surgeon Lieutenant 28 January 1898; Lieutenant R.A.M.C. 28 January 1898; Captain R.A.M.C. 28 January 1901: Retired with gratuity 2 February 1910. After retirement lived in Napal (1913) and later lived in Liverpool. Service: Sierra Leone 1898-99 (wounded); South Africa 1899-1902; Attached to the Royal Field Artillery 1900-01; Eastern Transvaal 1901-02; and Jubbulpore (India) 1908. Letters in British Medical Journal: 'Veld Sores in South Africa' 1901; 'Lightning Stroke in South Africa' 1902; 'Enteric like Temperature with Ascaris Lumbricoides' 1904; 'Anopheles Rosser of Bombay' 1908.


PROVENANCE:
Collection Late Kenneth F. Russell (1911-1987), Professor of Anatomy and Medical History, University of Melbourne.

Estimate $400-800