THE ORDER OF THE INDIAN EMPIRE, BURMA 1889-92 AND CHINA 1900 CAMPAIGN GROUP, TO LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JAMES ENTRICAN, INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE AND BURMA MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Order of the Indian Empire, Companion’s Neck Badge, C.I.E., in gold and enamel,

THE ORDER OF THE INDIAN EMPIRE, BURMA 1889-92 AND CHINA 1900 CAMPAIGN GROUP TO LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JAMES ENTRICAN, INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE AND BURMA MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Three: Order of the Indian Empire, Companion’s Neck Badge, C.I.E., in gold and enamel, 3rd type (lacking the word “India” on obverse); India General Service Medal 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1889-92 (officially named, engraved in running script: Surgn. Capt. J. Entrican M.D. I.M.S.); China Medal 1900 (unnamed, as issued, a replacement for a lost original medal).

Order of Indian Empire mint state, in its original Garrard & Co case of issue and with its original neck ribbon, India General Service Medal and China Medal both with an attractive, matching, old dark tone, and both Extremely Fine and almost as issued.

NOTE: The China 1900 Medal in this group is an unnamed specimen medal, not a name erased example.

Group accompanied by monochrome portrait photograph of recipient in uniform, along with biographical details, extract 1891 census, copied extracts from the “Roll of the Indian Medical Service, 1615-1930”, copied extracts from Indian Army Lists of the period, extract China 1900 medal roll and extract London Gazette confirming the award of C.I.E.

James Entrican was born on 2/9/1864 in Londonderry, Ireland, the son of Samuel and Ann (nee Dixon) Entrican. He graduated B.A. 1885 and subsequently qualified as M.D., M.Ch., M.A.O., Royal University of Ireland (Queen’s College, Belfast), 1887. Entrican is recorded in the 1891 census return as a Surgeon, on probation, Army Medical Staff, resident in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, Hampshire and was subsequently appointed Surgeon, Indian Medical Service, 28/7/1891. Promoted Major, 28/7/1903 and Lieutenant-Colonel, 28/7/1911. He retired on 27/3/1923. In addition to seeing active service in Burma and China, Entrican was also employed in Burma from June 1903 with the Burma Medical Service as Inspector-General of Civilian Hospitals. He died in Beckley, Sussex, on 18/3/1935, aged 70.

The roll of the Indian Medical Service confirms C.I.E., India General Service Medal with Burma 1889-92 clasp and China 1900 Medal without clasp.

Lieutenant-Colonel Entrican’s C.I.E. was announced in the London Gazette of 31/12/1921

“Lieutenant-Colonel James Entrican, Indian Medical Service, Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Burma.”