India General Service Medal 1854-95. Silver issue with clasp 'Burma 1887-89' (Asst. Apothecary T. A. S. Connor S.M.D. Madras)

Medal & Clasp Verification: Reference 'The Quarterly Indian Army List, January 1904', the recipients entitlement to the medal and clasp for Burma 1886 (sic), is shown therein

The recipient was Thomas Augustus Samuel Connor, who at the time of qualifying for his medal and clasp held the rank of Assistant Apothecary, while serving with the Indian Medical Department (Madras)

Thomas Augustus Samuel Connor, was by ethnicity a Eurasian of British descent, who was born on 18 August 1849 (baptised on 19 September 1849). Extant pension records record that Thomas joined the Madras Subordinate Medical Department in 1870, and went on to serve a total of 34 years & 52 days, his entire service being spent in British India (which then included Burma, in which place here he served for a number of years and where his children were born). His record of appointments / promotions in the Indian Subordinate Medal Department (Madras) was: 

- 14/02/1875: Second Class Assistant Apothecary
- 14/02/1880: First Class Assistant Apothecary
- 15/04/1901: Senior Assistant Surgeon with Honorary rank of Lieutenant
- 18/08/1904: Senior Assistant Surgeon.with Honorary rank of Captain

At the time of his retirement from the Indian Army on 18 August 1904, Thomas Augustus Samuel Connor, held the rank of Senior Assistant Surgeon & Honorary Captain

Reference 'The Quarterly Indian Army List, January 1905', of under the Officers 'War Services of Officers of the Indian Army' section shows, that Samuel Connor, served in two campaigns as under:

- Khond Rebellion 1882
- Burma 1886 (Medal & Clasp)

Thomas Augustus Samuel Connor married Clementina Martha Royle (daughter of Overseer James & Annie Augusta Royle, of the Public Works Department who was born at Bangalore, India, 3 February 1855, and who was baptised on, 29 October 1863). The widow Clementina died at the 'Civil & Military Station', Bangalore, India on, 11 September 1914. The children of the marriage, three daughters and a son all appear to have been born in Burma.

Thomas Augustus Samuel Connor, died from 'Pneumonia' at Bangalore on 24 January 1908. The inventory of his extant 'Last Will & Testament' is held and accessible at The British Library, his estate being left to his widow, and three equal shares to his children, Miss Dora Ethel Connor, Mrs Hilda Constace Montgomery (nee Connor, born 1 January 1886, baptized Christ Church Cantonment, Rangoon, Burma, 2 October 1907) nee Connor & and Mr Ernest Percy Connor (1885-1941 who later died in Glasgow, Scotland) can be consulted for an inventory of his estate at time of it being bequeathed to his surviving family

The only son of Thomas and Clementina Connor, Ernest Percy Connor, served with the Royal Engineers of the British Army during the Great War, for which services he received a 1914-15 Star trio, for his services in France & Flanders from 1915. Post war, he married a Scottish woman, in Yorkshire, England, at which time he described his employment to be an 'Electrical Engineer'. Ernest subsequently took up an appointment with the Glasgow Underground as an Engineer - some sources state he was 'Chief Engineer of the Glasgow Underground' - and is recorded to have died under tragic circumstances  on 1941, when the cause of death was recorded as:

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Crushed between the buffers of two underground trains.

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Following  his death, Captain Thomas Augustus Connor's body was laid to rest at the Hosur Road Cemtery, Banglaore, India, where his memorial, and that to eldest daughter Milicent 'Tottie' Augusta Connor (born 22 July 1878 - baptised at Christ Church Cantonment, Rangoon, Burma, on 2 October 1907, just 8 weeks before her death, from 'Plague' at Bangalore, India, on 29 November 1907) can still be seen in 2026!

Condition: GVF 

Code: 26083