SENIOR ASSISTANT SURGEON P. ST. C. TRUTWEIN, INDIAN MEDICAL DEPARTMENT (LATE 1ST CLASS ASSISTANT SURGEON, INDIAN SUBORDINATE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT). Three: British War Medal, officially impressed (Lieutenant, Indian Medical Department) India General Service

SENIOR ASSISTANT SURGEON P. ST. C. TRUTWEIN, INDIAN MEDICAL DEPARTMENT (LATE 1ST CLASS ASSISTANT SURGEON, INDIAN SUBORDINATE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT). Three: British War Medal, officially impressed (Lieutenant, Indian Medical Department) India General Service Medal 1908, George V, Calcutta Mint issue, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21, officially impressed (Lieutenant, Indian Medical Department) Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, George V, type 1, swiveling suspender (issue of 1911-20) (officially engraved in running script: 1st. Cl. Asst. Surgn. P. St. C. Trutwein. I.S.M. Dept.). Official correction to initial “P” on third medal, otherwise attractively toned, Good Very Fine to Almost Extremely Fine, and an unusual combination of medals to a surgeon in the Indian Medical Service.

With photocopied extracts from 1908 and 1919 Indian Army Lists, photocopied Medal Index Card for BWM and photocopied extract from Trutwein family tree.

Percy St. Clair Trutwein (1876-1947) is recorded in the Indian Army Lists as having attained Warrant rank, 31/3/1898, and is listed in the 1908 Indian Army List as an Assistant Surgeon, 3rd Class (ranking as Sub-Conductor), seniority 31/3/03, and then serving on attachment to the King’s Institute, Guindy. The 1919 Indian Army List records him as a Senior Assistant Surgeon with the honorary rank of Lieutenant, seniority 4/5/1917, and then serving in the Xray Department, Ripon Hospital, Simla. His Medal Index Card gives his then address as the Xray Department, Civil Hospital, Delhi. Percy St. Clair Trutwein married, 30/10/1899, Melissa Ann Coombes.