A Red Shirt Rebellion and later Tobruk Prisoner of War group awarded to Lieutenant Colonel G.F. Condon, Indian Medical Service who would serve as the Medical Officer to 20th Lancers for seven months during the Red Shirt Rebellion on the North West Frontier in the period from 23rd April 1930 to 22nd March 1931, subsequently serving in and commanding various Military Hospitals across the Indian subcontinent, he would then see service in North Africa during the Second World War being taken Prisoner of War at the Fall of Tobruk before being exchanged and returning to India in June 1943 where he served for the remainder of the war.
Group of 5: India General Service Medal 1908-1935, 1 Clasp: North West Frontier 1930-31; (LT. G.F. CONDON. I.M.S.) 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star; War Medal; India Service Medal 1939-45.
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Gerald Fitzgerald Condon was born on 19th May 1901 and qualified as a Surgeon from the College of Surgeons, Dublin and would be commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service on 15th August 1928. Travelling to India he would be employed at Rawalpindi and then Peshawar before being appointed Second in Command of the Indian Military Hospital at Rinalpur on 17th April 1930, a position he held until 8th January 1931 when he would be appointed to command the Indian Military Hospital at Shigai.
He would serve as Medical Officer to 20th Lancers for seven months during the Red Shirt Rebellion on the North West Frontier in the period from 23rd April 1930 to 22nd March 1931. He would subsequently be promoted Captain on 15th August 1931 and appointed to command the Indian Military Hospital at Chitral on 25th August 1931. He would spend the next 4 years on the North West Frontier serving at Chitral and Peshawar until he went on leave on 20th July 1934.
He would spend the next seven years at various appointments across the Indian subcontinent being appointed Major on 15th August 1938, before being promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in charge of a Field Ambulance in 1941 in which role he would travel to North Africa.
Serving in North Africa Condon would be taken Prisoner of War at the Fall of Tobruk and was held at Camp 201 in Italy until he was exchanged with several other Medical Officers in April 1943. On 20th June 1943 he would then be repatriated to India where he would command various hospitals until independence in 1947.
