The very fine India General Service Medal 1854-1895, 2 clasps: Chin Lushai 1889-90 and North East Frontier 1891, awarded to Surgeon, later Lieutenant-Colonel J. C. Lamont, Indian Medical Service, who was later awarded the C.I.E. for services with the government of India during WW1.
India General Service 1854-1895, 2 clasps: N. E. Frontier 1891, Chin-Lushai 1889-1890 (Surgeon. J. C. Lamont, I.M.S.)
Condition: official correction to unit, therefore Nearly Extremely Fine.
Lieutenant-Colonel J. C. Lamont died in 1945 and his obituary was published that year in the British Medical Journal.
DEATHS IN THE SERVICES
Lieut.-Col. JOHN CHARLES LAMONT, C.I.E., I.M.S., died on June 19 in Edinburgh at the ripe age of 80. He was educated at the Liverpool College and Edinburgh University, where he graduated M.B., C.M. in 1885 with first-class honours. In 1886-7 he was demonstrator of anatomy in the University, an appointment which determined his life's work. In 1887 he entered the Bengal Medical Service and saw active service with the Chin-Lushai Expedition of 1889-90 and the Munipur Expedition in 1891, receiving the Frontier medal with clasp. Three years later he was appointed professor of anatomy in the Punjab University at Lahore, a post that he occupied with distinction until 1906, when he went on leave preparatory to retiring in 1908 from the Indian Medical Service. He immediately took up the post of lecturer on anatomy, University College, Dundee, which he filled from 1906 to 1914, and for three years he was examiner in anatomy at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He published a number of papers in the Jolurnal of Anatoiny, and was elected to F.R.S.Ed. in 1920. In 1914 he volunteered for military service, was re-employed by the Government of India, and was awarded the C.I.E. in 1919. His recreations were fishing and golf, and he was one of the five original members of council of the Clan Lamont Society, founded in 1895. His wife, a daughter of Stephen Adam, of Edinburgh, died in 1935, and in 1940, to commemorate her, he magnanimously gave his house at 7, Merchiston Park to the Corporation of Edinburgh, with the suggestion that it should eventually be used as a rest of convalescent home for their employees, though it has been used during the present war as an A.R.P. depot. Col. Lamont was a sound anatomist with wide interests and many friends and admirers. He had unbroken membership of the B.M.A. from January, 1888.
