United Kingdom. A China War Medal to Lieutenant Colonel John Adolphus Burton consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac suspended from a loop with

suspended from a loop with a period original ribbon

Footnote: The Order of the Red Banner of Labour was instituted on May 4

British recipients also qualified for the British Crimea Medal

" (Whitehead & Hoag)

above a date of “9

United Kingdom. A China War Medal to Lieutenant Colonel John Adolphus Burton consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac suspended from a loop withVictoria. (Lieut Col J. A. Burton ) Rim has been shaved and privately re engraved, fine. Footnote: John Adolphus Burton, son of Charles Benjamin, was born December 10th 1854 at Rajahundy, INdia. On January 17th 1855, John was baptized at Black Town, Madras. BY 1879, he had graduated from the Universties of Madras and Edinburgh in medicine. The following year on October 2nd 1880, John entered the Madras at Netley from October 2nd 1880 to February 7th