Lieutenant Colonel John Joshua Russell

Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps
Date published: 04/12/1914
Killed in action: No
Information: Lieutenant Colonel John Joshua Russell, Royal Army Medical Corps, who has been mentioned in Sir John French's first despatch, entered the service in 1886, and served through the South African War, being present during the operations in Cape Colony, 1899-1900, and again in Cape Colony from November, 1900 to January, 1902. He obtained the Queen's Medal with clasp, and the King's Medal with two clasps.